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Imminent Communities: Transpacific Literary Form and Racialization, 1847 - 1920
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Imminent Communities: Transpacific Literary Form and Racialization, 1847 - 1920
Yazar:
Tricker, Spencer, author.
ISBN:
9780355991710
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1 electronic resource (236 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: John Funchion Committee members: Colleen Lye; Joel Nickels; Tim Watson.
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This study examines literary contestations of an imperial discourse I call Pacific Imminence, a ruse of American exceptionalism that framed U.S. Pacific ascendancy as an impending development inaugurating global economic prosperity and a harmonious community of humankind. Through the continental imaginary of Manifest Destiny, most Americanist scholarship has viewed the Pacific as a peripheral site of empire-building in the long nineteenth century. By contrast, I argue that the Pacific uniquely catalyzed a globalist re-branding of U.S. imperialism that American and East Asian writers resisted through fictional forms. Such works undercut Pacific imminence by narrativizing the persistence of colonial antagonisms. In the first two chapters, I examine the Pacific fictions of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, tracing the roots of Pacific imminence to the antebellum era. In the third and fourth chapters, I analyze counter-narratives of fraught cosmopolitanism in the work of Filipino author Jose Rizal and Chinese-American author Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton).
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School code: 0125
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Yer Numarası | Demirbaş Numarası | Shelf Location | Lokasyon / Statüsü / İade Tarihi |
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