Empire's proxy : American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines / Meg Wesling.

By: Wesling, Meg
Language: English Series: America and the long 19th centuryPublisher: New York : New York University Press 2011Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780814794760; 0814794769; 9780814794777; 0814794777; 9780814794784; 0814794785; 9780814795415; 9780814794760Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Imperialism in literature | Philippine literature (English) | Americans -- Philippines | American literature -- Filipino American authors -- History and criticism | National characteristics, American, in literature | United States -- Relations -- Philippines | Philippines -- Relations -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/358599032 LOC classification: PS217.I47 | W48 2011Online resources: Full text is available at the Directory of Open Access Books. Click here to view.
Contents:
Introduction: educated subjects: literary production, colonial expansion, and the pedagogical public sphere -- The alchemy of English: colonial state-building and the imperial origins of American literary study -- Empire's proxy: literary study as benevolent discipline -- Agents of assimilation: female authority, male domesticity, and the familial dramas of colonial tutelage -- The performance of patriotism: ironic affiliations and literary disruptions in Carlos Bulosan's America -- Conclusion: "An empire of letters": literary tradition, national sovereignty, and neocolonialism.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-228) and index.

Introduction: educated subjects: literary production, colonial expansion, and the pedagogical public sphere -- The alchemy of English: colonial state-building and the imperial origins of American literary study -- Empire's proxy: literary study as benevolent discipline -- Agents of assimilation: female authority, male domesticity, and the familial dramas of colonial tutelage -- The performance of patriotism: ironic affiliations and literary disruptions in Carlos Bulosan's America -- Conclusion: "An empire of letters": literary tradition, national sovereignty, and neocolonialism.

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