| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
America and the long 19th century
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America and the long 19th century.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 language and American literature to advance the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, which was held up as justification for the U.S.'s civilizing mission and offered as a promise of moral uplift and political advancement. Meanwhile, on American soil, the field of American literature was just being developed and fundamentally, though invisibly, defined by this new, extraterritorial expansion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Philippine literature (English)
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Philippine literature (English) |
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Americans -- Philippines.
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Americans. |
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Philippines. |
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American literature -- Filipino American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Filipino American authors. |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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United States -- Relations -- Philippines.
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United States. |
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Relations. |
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Philippines -- Relations -- United States.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wesling, Meg. Empire's proxy. New York : New York University Press, ©2011 9780814794760 (DLC) 2010021006 (OCoLC)643322038 |
| ISBN |
9780814794784 electronic book |
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0814794785 electronic book |
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9780814795415 electronic book |
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0814795412 electronic book |
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9780814794760 |
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0814794769 |
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9780814794777 |
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0814794777 |
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