The imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture / John R. Eperjesi ; foreword by Donald E. Pease.

By: Eperjesi, John R [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2005]Copyright date: 2005Description: 1 online resource (211 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781611686654Subject(s): American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- Asian influences | Imperialism in literature | Asia -- In literature | Pacific Area -- Foreign public opinion, American | Pacific Area -- Relations -- United States | United States -- Relations -- Pacific Area | Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American | United States -- Relations -- Asia | Asia -- Relations -- United States | Pacific Area -- In literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture.DDC classification: 810.9/325 LOC classification: PS159.A85 | E64 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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