UID:
almahu_9949068798202882
Format:
1 online resource (153 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-87739-4
,
1-280-22641-2
,
9786610226412
,
0-203-49440-7
Series Statement:
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Melville's Typee and the Development of the American Colonial Imagination; Chapter Two The Colonizing Voice in Cuba: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage; Chapter Three "The Kings of the Sandwich Islands": Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii and Postbellum American Imperialism; Chapter Four Charles Warren Stoddard and the American "Homocolonial" Literary Excursion
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Chapter Five "And Who Are These White Men?": Jack London's The House of Pride and American Colonization of the Hawaiian IslandsConclusion; Bibliography; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-80343-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-97062-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
History
DOI:
10.4324/9780203494400
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203494400
