Empire's proxy : American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines / / Meg Wesling.
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| Superior document: | America and the long 19th century |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America and the long 19th century.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 235 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.