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The Colonizer Abroad: Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack Londonby Christo McBride
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--The Colonizer Abroadclaims 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.
Table of ContentsMelville's Typee and the Development of the American Colonial Imagination — The Colonizing Voice in Cuba: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage — "The Kings of the Sandwich Islands": Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii and Postbellum American Imperialism — Charles Warren Stoddard and the American "HomoColonial" Literary Excursion — "And Who Are These White Men?": Jack London's The House of Pride and American Colonization of the Hawaiian Islands.
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