The "hysterical" Emily Hobhouse and Boer war concentration camp controversy. From: Western Journal of Communication | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Hasian, Marouf, Jr. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Western States Communications Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This essay provides a rhetorical analysis of some of the gender, class, and racial politics of the "concentration camp" controversy of the Anglo-Boer war. The author argues that a synchronic ideographic analysis of key colonial fragments illustrates the ways that British and South African officials tried to create an image of a "hysterical" Emily Hobhouse, as a way of quelling the criticism of both the war and the camps. By investigating some of the newspaper accounts, diary entrie...

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