INTS 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Oxymoron, Aporia, Historical Method
26 Aug 2016
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Colonial imperialism (cont. : exchange produces a liberating enslavement . Rhetorically, this is an oxymoron: antithetical, or opposite terms are combined (ex: deafening silence : in the rhetoric of christian imperialism, the hidden relationship between the opposite terms causes the reader/listener to marvel at the thing being described. Columbus induces his leaders to join him in what we may call an act of ideological forgetting (p. 73) One forgets the sinful violence done to the native americans as one marvels at them and at the possibility of their conversion to. The marvelous: by the time of the 3rd voyage there is a specific political and rhetorical reason for evocation of wonder . To insist on the marvelous nature of the discoveries implies that he has reached the fabled lands of gold and spices: evocations of the marvelous tinged with a sense of loss (nostalgia)
