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The colonizer abroad : American writers on foreign soil, 1846-1912 / Christopher Mark McBride.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Literary criticism and cultural theoryPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135877392
  • 1135877394
  • 0203494407
  • 9780203494400
  • 9780415970624
  • 0415970628
  • 9781135877408
  • 1135877408
  • 1280226412
  • 9781280226410
  • 9786610226412
  • 6610226415
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The colonizer abroadDDC classification:
  • 810.9/32 22
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.

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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.

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.

English.

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