The imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture / John R. Eperjesi ; foreword by Donald E. Pease.
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TextPublisher: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (211 pages)Content type: - text
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- 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
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- PS159.A85 E64 2005eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-189) and index.
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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