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Poetics of Imperialism - by Eric Cheyfitz (Paperback)
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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.
- About the Author: Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.
- 272 Pages
- Literary Criticism, American
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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, 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.Review Quotes
"A provocative and insightful book."-- "Modern Philology"
About the Author
Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.Dimensions (Overall): 7.92 Inches (H) x 5.08 Inches (W) x .55 Inches (D)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Eric Cheyfitz
Language: English
Street Date: June 29, 1997
TCIN: 91353216
UPC: 9780812216097
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-2038
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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