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Meg Wesling - Empire's Proxy - 9780814794760 - V9780814794760
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Empire's Proxy

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Description for Empire's Proxy Hardcover. Explores the literature focused schooling systems put in place by American colonizers in the Philippines during the nineteenth Century Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; DSB; HBJF; HBLL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English language and American literature to advance the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, which was held up as justification for the U.S.’s civilizing mission and offered as a promise of moral uplift and political advancement. Meanwhile, on American soil, the field of American literature was just being developed and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
American Literatures Initiative
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814794760
SKU
V9780814794760
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About Meg Wesling
Meg Wesling is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews for Empire's Proxy
The parallels Wesling draws with current US/NATO rhetorics of involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan make uncomfortable but valuable reading.
T. Carolan
Choice
This is a & big idea book that is likely to become a major influence in the field of American Studies. Its superbly argued thesis is both counterintuitive and perspective-altering: that American Literature came into ... Read more

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