Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from the Tempest to Tarzan (Expanded)

by Eric Cheyfitz

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812216091

ISBN13:9780812216097

Release Date:June 1997

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.81 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Religion

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