Empire's proxy
Subtitle: American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines
By: Meg Wesling
Series: America and the long 19th century
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780814794760; 9780814794777; 9780814794784
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: educated subjects: literary production, colonial expansion, and the pedagogical public sphere; title: The alchemy of English: colonial state-building and the imperial origins of American literary study; title: Empire's proxy: literary study as benevolent discipline; title: Agents of assimilation: female authority, male domesticity, and the familial dramas of colonial tutelage; title: The performance of patriotism: ironic affiliations and literary disruptions in Carlos Bulosan's America; title: Conclusion: "An empire of letters": literary tradition, national sovereignty, and neocolonialism.