An edition of The Imperialist Imaginary
(2005)
The imperialist imaginary
visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture
by John R. Eperjesi
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In a groundbreaking work of "New Americanist" studies, John R. Eperjesi explores the cultural and economic formation of the Unites States relationship to China and the Pacific Rim in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eperjesi examines a variety of texts to explore the emergence of what Rob Wilson has termed the "American Pacific."
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American Foreign public opinion, American literature, Asian influences, Foreign public opinion, American, History and criticism, Imperialism in literature, In literature, Relations, United states, history, 19th century, United states, history, 20th centuryPlaces
Asia, Pacific Area, United StatesTimes
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The imperialist imaginary: visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture
2005, Dartmouth College Press, Published by University Press of New England
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158465435X 9781584654353
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Table of 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 (p. [167]-189) and index.
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