Shadowing the white man's burden
Subtitle: U.S. imperialism and the problem of the color line
By: Gretchen Murphy.
Series: America and the long 19th century
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780814795989; 9780814795996
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Race in literature; Racism in literature; Imperialism in literature; United States -- Foreign relations -- 19th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : writing race on the world's stage; title: The burden of whiteness : reading Kipling in America; title: The White man's burden or The leopard's spots : Dixon's political conundrum; title: The plain citizen of black orientalism : Frank R. Steward's Filipino-American war fiction; title: Pauline Hopkins's "international policy" : cosmopolitan perspective at the Colored American magazine; title: How the Irish became Japanese : Winnifred Eaton's transnational racial reconstructions; title: American Indians, Asiatics, and Anglo-Saxons : Ranald MacDonald's Japan story of adventure.