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The imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture / by Eperjesi, John R.

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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American studies as transnational practice : turning toward the transpacific /

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Spain's long shadow the black legend, off-whiteness, and Anglo-American empire / by DeGuzmán, María

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Exploding the Western myths of empire on the postmodern frontier / by Spurgeon, Sara L.

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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Transpacific studies and the cultures of US imperialism /…”
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Our South geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / by Greeson, Jennifer Rae

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : magnet South -- Nationalization / The Plantation South -- The problem of the plantation -- Putting the colonial past in its place -- Domestic possession and the imperial impulse -- The enemy within -- Industrialization and expansion / The slave South -- Underwriting free labor and free soil -- American universal geography -- Dark satanic fields -- The masterwork of national literature -- The question of empire / The Reconstruction South -- Abandoned lands and exceptional empire -- The glory of disaster -- Internal islands and the American scene, 1898/1905.…”
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