
Gender and Colonial Space
Sara Mills(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 1. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-7190-5336-8 (ISBN)
Description
Gender and colonial space is a trenchant analysis of the complex relation between social relations - including notions of class, nationality and gender - and spatial relations, landscape, architecture and topography - in post-colonial contexts.
Arguing against much of the psychoanalytic focus of much current post-colonial theory, Mills aims to set out in a new direction, drawing on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to develop a more materialist approach. She foregrounds gender in this field where it has often been marginalised by the critical orthodoxies, demonstrating its importance not only in spatial theorising in general, but in the post-colonial theorising of space in particular.
Concentrating on the period of 'high' British colonialism at the close of the nineteenth century, she adroitly examines a range of contexts, looking at a range of colonial contexts such as India, Africa, America, Canada, Australia and Britain, illustrating how relations must be analysed for the way in which different colonial contexts define and constitute each other. -- .
Arguing against much of the psychoanalytic focus of much current post-colonial theory, Mills aims to set out in a new direction, drawing on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to develop a more materialist approach. She foregrounds gender in this field where it has often been marginalised by the critical orthodoxies, demonstrating its importance not only in spatial theorising in general, but in the post-colonial theorising of space in particular.
Concentrating on the period of 'high' British colonialism at the close of the nineteenth century, she adroitly examines a range of contexts, looking at a range of colonial contexts such as India, Africa, America, Canada, Australia and Britain, illustrating how relations must be analysed for the way in which different colonial contexts define and constitute each other. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
271 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-5336-8 (9780719053368)
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Sara Mills is Research Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University -- .
Content
1. Introduction
2. Colonial subjectivity, gender and space
3. Knowing and viewing landscape
4. Public and domestic colonial architecture
5. Indigenous spatiality within the colonial sphere
6. Conclusions
Bibliography -- .
2. Colonial subjectivity, gender and space
3. Knowing and viewing landscape
4. Public and domestic colonial architecture
5. Indigenous spatiality within the colonial sphere
6. Conclusions
Bibliography -- .