The Poetics of Imperialism
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The Poetics of Imperialism by Eric Cheyfitz
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Cheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century America in a Third World judged equally in need of cultural translation. Passionately and provocatively, he reads James Fenimore Cooper and Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, and Edgar Rice Burroughs within and against the imperial framework. At the center of the book is Shakespeare's "Tempest," at once transfiguring the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown and prefiguring much of American literature. In a new, final chapter, Cheyfitz reaches back to the representations of Native Americans produced by the English decades before the establishment of the Jamestown colony.
"A provocative and insightful book" * Modern Philology *
Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812216097 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812216091 |
| Title | The Poetics of Imperialism |
| Author | Eric Cheyfitz |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 1997-06-29 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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