The rhetoric of empire : colonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spurr, David, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
Subjects:
English prose literature > History and criticism.
American prose literature > History and criticism.
French prose literature > History and criticism.
Travel writing > History.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Discourse analysis.
Rhetoric.
Developing countries in literature.
American prose literature > history & criticism.
Prose anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique.
Prose française > Histoire et critique.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Histoire.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Rhétorique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
American prose literature.
English prose literature.
French prose literature.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Travel writing.
Kolonialismus
Reiseliteratur
Stil
Verwaltungssprache
Zeitungssprache
Imperialisme.
Journalistiek.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Developing countries > In literature.
English-speaking countries > Intellectual life.
Developing countries.
English-speaking countries.
Literature > Special subjects > Political systems > History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""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""

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