Empire's proxy : : American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines / / Meg Wesling.
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...
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Superior document: | America and the long 19th century |
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | America and the long 19th century.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.