The imperialist imaginary : : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture / / John R. Eperjesi ; foreword by Donald E. Pease.

• VerfasserIn: Eperjesi, John R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Hanover, New Hampshire : : Dartmouth College Press :, Published by University Press of New England,, [2005]; 2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (211 pages)

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.