Empire's proxy : : American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines / / Meg Wesling.

• Superior document: America and the long 19th century
• Author: Wesling, Meg.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: America and the long 19th century.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

• 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.