Empire's proxy [electronic resource] : American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines / Meg Wesling.
Material type:
- 9780814795415
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- 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
- 810.9/358599032 22
- PS217.I47 W48 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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