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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism

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Unravels the complexities of writings by British women of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers, extending recent post-colonial and cultural theory in an important and inspiring study.

Author(s): Sara Mills
Year: 1991

Language: English
Pages: 240

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
FEMINIST WORK ON WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING......Page 36
GENDER AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE......Page 56
FOUCAULT AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEXT......Page 76
CONSTRAINTS ON THE RECEPTION OF WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING......Page 117
ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL: MY JOURNEY TO LHASA (1927)......Page 134
MARY KINGSLEY: TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA (1897)......Page 162
NINA MAZUCHELLI: THE INDIAN ALPS AND HOW WE CROSSED THEM (1876)......Page 184
CONCLUSION......Page 204
Notes......Page 209
Bibliography......Page 222
Index......Page 237