Review: David Spurr: The rhetoric of empire: Colonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration
David Spurr’s book The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration presents some of the rhetorical methods used in non-fictional writing in a colonial context. Spurr unfolds twelve rhetorical methods that he developed by identifying basic tropes used to write about non-Western people in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.