TY - BOOK AU - Eperjesi,John R. TI - The imperialist imaginary: visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture AV - PS159.A85 E64 2005 U1 - 810.9/325 22 PY - 2005///] CY - Hanover, New Hampshire PB - Dartmouth College Press, Published by University Press of New England KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Asian influences KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Asia KW - In literature KW - Pacific Area KW - Foreign public opinion, American KW - Relations KW - United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-189) and index; 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1882367 ER -