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.

書誌詳細
第一著者: Wesling, Meg (著者)
団体著者: De Gruyter ebooks
Resource Type: Electronic Resource
言語:English
出版事項: New York New York University Press c2011.
シリーズ:America and the long 19th century
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オンライン・アクセス:https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9780814794760.001.0001/html
目次:
  • 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.