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The imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture /

Tracing the construction of an American Pacific.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eperjesi, John R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2005]
Colección:Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the American Pacific : an errand into Oceania
  • The "superlative and poetry of commerce" : scattered origins of an American Pacific frontier
  • An American Pacific Jeremiad : Frank Norris's The octopus and U.S. imperialism
  • The American Asiatic association and the imperialist imaginary of the American Pacific
  • Becoming Hawaiian : Jack London, cultural tourism, and the myth of Hawaiian exceptionalism
  • Maxine Hong Kingston's China men : frontiers of the Chinese American Pacific
  • Memories of a forgotten war : a Filipino/American ghost story
  • Conclusion : outside in the American Pacific.