LEADER 04832nam 22007694 450 001 9910791033003321 005 20140505124428.0 010 $a0-8223-9864-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398646 035 $a(CKB)2550000001317328 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10882729 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001228106 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12396461 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001228106 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11286083 035 $a(PQKB)11448369 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007852 035 $a879136575 035 $a(OCoLC)1152053603 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80988 035 $a(DE-B1597)553967 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398646 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161595 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001317328 100 $a20140504d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rhetoric of empire $ecolonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration /$fDavid Spurr 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d1993. 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 1 $aPost-contemporary interventions 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-1303-0 311 $a0-8223-1317-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [203]-208) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Surveillance: Under Western Eyes -- $t2 Appropriation: Inheriting the Earth -- $t3 Aestheticization: Savage Beauties -- $t4 Classification: The Order of Nations -- $t5 Debasement: Filth and Defilement -- $t6 Negation: Areas of Darkness -- $t7 Affirmation: The White Man's Burden -- $t8 Idealization: Strangers in Paradise -- $t9 Insubstantialization: Seeing as in a Dream -- $t10 Naturalization: The Wilderness in Human Form -- $t11 Eroticization: The Harems of the West -- $t12 Resistance: Notes Toward an Opening -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account of the rhetorical strategies that have defined Western thinking about the non-Western world.Despite historical differences among British, French, and American versions of colonialism, their rhetoric had much in common. The Rhetoric of Empire identifies these shared features?images, figures of speech, and characteristic lines of argument?and explores them in a wide variety of sources. A former correspondent for the United Press International, the author is equally at home with journalism or critical theory, travel writing or official documents, and his discussion is remarkably comprehensive. Ranging from T. E. Lawrence and Isak Dineson to Hemingway and Naipaul, from Time and the New Yorker to the National Geographic and Le Monde, from journalists such as Didion and Sontag to colonial administrators such as Frederick Lugard and Albert Sarraut, this analysis suggests the degree to which certain rhetorical tactics penetrate the popular as well as official colonial and postcolonial discourse.Finally, Spurr considers the question: Can the language itself?and with it, Western forms of interpretation--be freed of the exercise of colonial power? This ambitious book is an answer of sorts. By exposing the rhetoric of empire, Spurr begins to loosen its hold over discourse about?and between?different cultures. 410 0$aPost-contemporary interventions. 606 $aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aColonies in literature 606 $aDiscourse analysis 606 $aRhetoric 607 $aDeveloping countries$xIn literature 607 $aEnglish-speaking countries$xIntellectual life 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aColonies in literature. 615 0$aDiscourse analysis. 615 0$aRhetoric. 676 $a809/.93358 700 $aSpurr$b David$f1949-$0862213 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791033003321 996 $aThe rhetoric of empire$93817389 997 $aUNINA