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
Main Author: Spurr, David, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Discourse analysis.
Journalistiek.
Imperialisme.
Zeitungssprache
Verwaltungssprache
Stil
Reiseliteratur
Kolonialismus
Travel writing.
Rhetoric.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
Imperialism in literature.
French prose literature.
English prose literature.
Colonies in literature.
American prose literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Rhetorique.
Colonies dans la litterature.
Imperialisme dans la litterature.
Voyage > Art d'ecrire > Histoire.
Prose française > Histoire et critique.
Prose americaine > Histoire et critique.
Prose anglaise > Histoire et critique.
French prose literature > History and criticism.
American prose literature > history & criticism.
Developing countries in literature.
Travel writing > History.
American prose literature > History and criticism.
English prose literature > History and criticism.
English-speaking countries.
Developing countries.
English-speaking countries > Intellectual life.
Developing countries > In literature.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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