Discourses of Difference
Title | Discourses of Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Mills |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134947410 |
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.
Missionary Discourses of Difference
Title | Missionary Discourses of Difference PDF eBook |
Author | E. Cleall |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2012-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137032391 |
Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged.
Discourse
Title | Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Mills |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2006-10-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 113483604X |
Sara Mills offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the term 'discourse' and explores the theoretical assumptions underlying it. This handy, easy to follow pocket guidebook for students provides: straightforward working definitions historical developments of the term studied analysis of Michel Foucault discussion of the appropriation of the term 'discourse' by feminist, colonial and post-colonial discourse theorists examples of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate the use of 'discourse'.
Discourse Across Languages and Cultures
Title | Discourse Across Languages and Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Lynn Moder |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027230782 |
This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.
Discourses on Difference
Title | Discourses on Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Duncan |
Publisher | Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
The Invention of Women
Title | The Invention of Women PDF eBook |
Author | Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 1997-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1452903255 |
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.
Rereading the Black Legend
Title | Rereading the Black Legend PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret R. Greer |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 487 |
Release | 2008-09-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226307247 |
The phrase “The Black Legend” was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this stereotype, Rereading the Black Legend contextualizes Spain’s uniquely tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the “Black Legend.” A distinguished group of contributors here examine early modern imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese in East India, and the cases of Mughal India and China, to historicize the charge of unique Spanish brutality in encounters with indigenous peoples during the Age of Exploration. The geographic reach and linguistic breadth of this ambitious collection will make it a valuable resource for any discussion of race, national identity, and religious belief in the European Renaissance.