Emily: Another long title -- is this a genre distinction or a time period distinction?! I found your presentation pretty interesting -- white slave narratives tend to be a little provocative. Thanks for the pork nod by the way, I tend to like pork. As we discussed after your presentation, the fact that he admits to publishing for money and the timeliness of the white slave narrative seems suspicious.. especially when you consider he claims to have been captive for 17 months but the captain of his ship was only a prisoner for 2 months. As you mentioned he loved to quote the bible .. perhaps there's a connection. The bible is all about metaphors and allegorical meanings .. maybe 'your guy' did the allegory thing?
Amir: Thanks to the handout I 'remember' the name of 'your guy.' Bowring seemed like kind of an intelligent douche bag, especially if he started a war. Maybe/probably he stood to make lots of money from the war? Anyway, you set him up as attempting to be fairly objective .. but then you tell us things like how Bowring used metaphors for chinese people like vultures and carrion ants. Scientific racism? Perhaps he should have stuck with translating Scandinavian poetry instead of politics...
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