Empire’s Proxy : : American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines / / Meg Wesling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Wesling, Meg,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: American Literatures Initiative ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English languag...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Educated Subjects: Literary Production, Colonial Expansion, and the Pedagogical Public Sphere
• 1. The Alchemy of English
• 2. Empire’s Proxy
• 3. Agents of Assimilation
• 4. The Performance of Patriotism
• Conclusion. “An Empire of Letters”: Literary Tradition, National Sovereignty, and Neocolonialism
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author