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The poetics of imperialism

by Eric Cheyfitz

1991 202 pages eng

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From Columbus onward, the discourse of European-American expansion has been characterized by a poetics of imperialism, Eric Cheyfitz contends, a poetics that has set the conventions for translating the languages of the inhabitants of the New World into the language of empire, a discourse that has co…

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