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Empire's proxy : American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines /
In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley's project of "benevolent assimilation," they established a school system that centered on...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | America and the long 19th century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.