Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415046299)

Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli. Her examination of agency, identity, and the contemporary social environment, is an important and inspiring step forward in post-colonial cultural and literary theory.

Author: Sara Mills
ISBN-10: 0415046297
ISBN-13: 9780415046299
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/28/1991
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.58w x 0.94d