Description: The imperialist imaginary

Main Author:	Eperjesi, John R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2005]
Physical Description:	xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:	Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas.
Subjects:	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 literature.

Item Description:	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.
Physical Description:	xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-189) and index.
ISBN:	1584654341 158465435X