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The rhetoric of empire : colonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration /
The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1993.
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| Colección: | Post-contemporary interventions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Surveillance: Under Western Eyes""; ""2. Appropriation: Inheriting the Earth""; ""3. Aestheticization: Savage Beauties""; ""4. Classification: The Order of Nations""; ""5. Debasement: Filth and Defilement""; ""6. Negation: Areas of Darkness""; ""7. Affirmation: The White Man's Burden""; ""8. Idealization: Strangers in Paradise""; ""9. Insubstantialization: Seeing as in a Dream""; ""10. Naturalization: The Wilderness in Human Form""; ""11. Eroticization: The Harems of the West""; ""12. Resistance: Notes Toward an Opening""