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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McBride, Christopher Mark, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
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.