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The imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture /

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Main Author: Eperjesi, John R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2005]
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Asian influences.
Imperialism in literature.
Asia > In literature.
Pacific Area > Foreign public opinion, American.
Pacific Area > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Pacific Area.
Asia > Foreign public opinion, American.
United States > Relations > Asia.
Asia > Relations > United States.
Pacific Area > In literature.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the American Pacific : an errand into Oceania
  • The "superlative and poetry of commerce" : scattered origins of an American Pacific frontier
  • An American Pacific Jeremiad : Frank Norris's The octopus and U.S. imperialism
  • The American Asiatic association and the imperialist imaginary of the American Pacific
  • Becoming Hawaiian : Jack London, cultural tourism, and the myth of Hawaiian exceptionalism
  • Maxine Hong Kingston's China men : frontiers of the Chinese American Pacific
  • Memories of a forgotten war : a Filipino/American ghost story
  • Conclusion : outside in the American Pacific.

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