04832nam 22007694 450 991079103300332120140505124428.00-8223-9864-810.1515/9780822398646(CKB)2550000001317328(CaPaEBR)ebrary10882729(SSID)ssj0001228106(PQKBManifestationID)12396461(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001228106(PQKBWorkID)11286083(PQKB)11448369(MiAaPQ)EBC3007852879136575(OCoLC)1152053603(MdBmJHUP)muse80988(DE-B1597)553967(DE-B1597)9780822398646(OCoLC)1229161595(EXLCZ)99255000000131732820140504d1993 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe rhetoric of empire colonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration /David SpurrDurham :Duke University Press,1993.1 online resource (224 p.) Post-contemporary interventionsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8223-1303-0 0-8223-1317-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-208) and index.Frontmatter -- 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 -- Bibliography -- IndexThe 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 the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account of the rhetorical strategies that have defined Western thinking about the non-Western world.Despite historical differences among British, French, and American versions of colonialism, their rhetoric had much in common. The Rhetoric of Empire identifies these shared features—images, figures of speech, and characteristic lines of argument—and explores them in a wide variety of sources. A former correspondent for the United Press International, the author is equally at home with journalism or critical theory, travel writing or official documents, and his discussion is remarkably comprehensive. Ranging from T. E. Lawrence and Isak Dineson to Hemingway and Naipaul, from Time and the New Yorker to the National Geographic and Le Monde, from journalists such as Didion and Sontag to colonial administrators such as Frederick Lugard and Albert Sarraut, this analysis suggests the degree to which certain rhetorical tactics penetrate the popular as well as official colonial and postcolonial discourse.Finally, Spurr considers the question: Can the language itself—and with it, Western forms of interpretation--be freed of the exercise of colonial power? This ambitious book is an answer of sorts. By exposing the rhetoric of empire, Spurr begins to loosen its hold over discourse about—and between—different cultures.Post-contemporary interventions.English prose literatureHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticismFrench prose literatureHistory and criticismTravel writingHistoryImperialism in literatureColonies in literatureDiscourse analysisRhetoricDeveloping countriesIn literatureEnglish-speaking countriesIntellectual lifeEnglish prose literatureHistory and criticism.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.French prose literatureHistory and criticism.Travel writingHistory.Imperialism in literature.Colonies in literature.Discourse analysis.Rhetoric.809/.93358Spurr David1949-862213NDDNDDBOOK9910791033003321The rhetoric of empire3817389UNINA