Discourses of Difference

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

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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

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

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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

Discourse
Title Discourse PDF eBook
Author Sara Mills
Publisher Routledge
Pages 240
Release 2006-10-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 113483604X

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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

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

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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

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
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The Invention of Women

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

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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

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

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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.