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The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (93rd Edition) by David Spurr, Professor Fredric Jameson (Editor), Stanley Eugene Fish, Stanley Fish (Editor) Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-8223-1317-0 / 0822313170 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1317-5 / 9780822313175 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 the s |