The colonizer abroad : American writers on foreign soil, 1846-1912 /
This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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Series: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Melville's Typee and the Development of the American Colonial Imagination
- The Colonizing Voice in Cuba: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage
- "The Kings of the Sandwich Islands": Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii and Postbellum American Imperialism
- Charles Warren Stoddard and the American "HomoColonial" Literary Excursion
- "And Who Are These White Men?": Jack London's The House of Pride and American Colonization of the Hawaiian Islands.