ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Size: 0.13 MB
Size: 0.15 MB
chapter 2|23 pages
The Colonizing Voice in Cuba: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage
Size: 0.18 MB
chapter 3|25 pages
“The Kings of the Sandwich Islands”: Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii and Postbellum American Imperialism
Size: 0.19 MB
Size: 0.19 MB
chapter 5|22 pages
“And Who Are These White Men?”: Jack London’s The House of Pride and American Colonization of the Hawaiian Islands
Size: 0.18 MB