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Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies
Malini Jo Schueller
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Description for Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies
Paperback. When exploring the links between America and post-colonialism, scholars tend to think either in terms of contemporary multiculturalism, or of imperialism since 1898. This book challenges the idea of early America's immunity from issues of imperialism. Editor(s): Schueller, Malini Johar; Watts, Edward. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
When exploring the links between America and postcolonialism, scholars tend to think either in terms of contemporary multiculturalism, or of imperialism since 1898. This narrow view has left more than the two prior centuries of colonizing literary and political culture unexamined. Messy Beginnings challenges the idea of early America's immunity from issues of imperialism, that its history is not as clean as European colonialism. By addressing the literature ranging from the diaries of American women missionaries in the Middle East to the work of Benjamin Franklin and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and through appraisals of key postcolonial theorists ... Read more
When exploring the links between America and postcolonialism, scholars tend to think either in terms of contemporary multiculturalism, or of imperialism since 1898. This narrow view has left more than the two prior centuries of colonizing literary and political culture unexamined. Messy Beginnings challenges the idea of early America's immunity from issues of imperialism, that its history is not as clean as European colonialism. By addressing the literature ranging from the diaries of American women missionaries in the Middle East to the work of Benjamin Franklin and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and through appraisals of key postcolonial theorists ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
445g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick, NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813532332
SKU
V9780813532332
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About Malini Jo Schueller
Malini Johar Schueller is a professor of English at the University of Florida and author of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890. Edward Watts is an associate professor of American thought and language at Michigan State University and the author of An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture.
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