Empire And Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: May 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781578068630
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; American - General; Literary Criticism; Slavery in literature; American literature; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; American - African American & Black; American - African American; American - Native American; 19th century; African Americans in literature
First sentence: Vallejo's assessment, marked as it is by his consent to the ideology of American empire, has to be read in the context of his own highly nationalistic narrative, and his views were by no means representative of the newly colonized Mexican people of the Southwest and California.