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June Starr's Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992)

which colonized subjects contest Western colonial discourse, do appear briefly in several places in Spurr's text (for example, pp. 60, 186-7, 194) but his focus on Western rhetoric precludes more than a brief mention of them. Further, Spurr both deploys and disputes his postmodernist approach. While he devotes most of his book to examining the ways the West constructed the rest of the world, he admits to "betraying an ontological naivete" in believing that journalism, as opposed to fiction, is about "things that really happen" (p. 9). Periodically, he disclaims any desire to question the truth or falsity of the colonial discourse he analyzes (for example, "I do not wish to question the factual validity of the journalistic language cited here," p. 91, see also pp. 150, 182). Thus, he implies that such a test is possible but beyond the scope of his analysis of Western rhetoric. Ultimately, for Spurr, the West has reached a dead-end: It is a prisoner of its own rhetoric. Even Western "critical debate over the role of theory in the critique of colonial discourse . . . [has] arrived at a theoretical cul-de-sac" (pp. 199-200). Spurr concludes with a vague hope that some "alternative discourses and new structures of knowledge" may spring from "the intervention of forces [from] outside the West" (p. 200). Spurr's insightful and wideranging analysis of Western colonial discourse therefore leads him to hope for a moment in history when the non-West will escape the power of the West, liberate it, and then "difference could range free of the structures of inequality" (p. 201).