The Poetics of Imperialism
Subtitle: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 20, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195050950
First sentence: WE COULD UNDERSTAND these words, which I have taken out of context for the moment, from Edgar Rice Burroughs's exceptionally popular 1912 romance Tarzan of the Apes, as articulating the deepest desires of U.S. foreign policy toward the Third World in the twentieth century (243).