Empire's proxy American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines

Explores the literature focused schooling systems put in place by American colonizers in the Philippines during the Nineteenth Century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wesling, Meg (Author)
Corporate Author:	De Gruyter ebooks
Resource Type:	Electronic Resource
Language:	English
Published:	New York New York University Press c2011.
Series:	America and the long 19th century
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. > 19th century. 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 States.
Online Access:	https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9780814794760.001.0001/html

Table of 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.