Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.
Melville'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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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.
Ingram Content Group
9781135877392
The colonizer abroad
0415970628 (acid-free paper)
University of South Alabama
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.