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    Imperial Rhetoric in Mrs. Robert. Lee’s Adventures in Australia; or, the Wanderings of Captain Spencer in the Bush and the Wilds (1851)
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2021-06) Fettis, Djouhar; Osmani, Nadia
    This dissertation examined Mrs. R. Lee‟s Adventures in Australia; Or, The Wanderings of Captain Spencer in the Bush and the Wilds (1851). We have analyzed the existence of imperialist rhetoric and ideology in the text, by presenting the colonizer and the colonized through the European perspective. Our work is based on the theory of David Spurr‟s the Rhetoric of Empire (1993). We have mainly used three concepts: Negation, Affirmation and Appropriation which are all apparent in Lee‟s work. In fact, in the first chapter we have used the notion of “Negation” to show the falsified images given to the Australian land as a dark space and its people as an inferior race. In the second chapter, we analyzed the positive portrayal of the colonizer as superior in terms of intellectual capacities that claim their superiority and power. As for the third chapter, we examined how the colonizer encroached upon the Australian land to exploit its inhabitants as well as natural resources. In other words, we showed how Lee negates the Australians and affirms the English and Europeans in such a way as to prepare the latter‟s appropriation of the former‟s land.