The Colonizer Abroad : Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
ISBN-10
0415970628
ISBN-13
9780415970624
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 11th, 2004
Print length
178 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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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.
Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. 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.
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