Poetics of Imperialism

Translation and Colonization from the Tempest to Tarzan (Expanded)

von Eric Cheyfitz

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000 Postkoloniale Literatur
• ISBN: 9780812216097
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.1997
• Größe: 201 x 129 mm
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press