Empire's proxy American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines

Title:

Author:

Wesling, Meg.

Personal Author:

Wesling, Meg.

Publication Information:

New York : New York University Press, 2011.

Physical Description:

xii, 235 p. : ill.

Series:

America and the long 19th century

America and the long 19th century.

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.

Subject Term:

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Imperialism in literature.

Philippine literature (English)

Americans -- Philippines.

American literature -- Filipino American authors -- History and criticism.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Relations -- Philippines.

Philippines -- Relations -- United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.