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U.S. women writers and the discourses of colonialism, 1825-1861 /

"Etsuko Taketani's U.S. Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism, 1825-1861, an overdue examination of widely marginalized writings by women of the American antebellum period, presents a new model for evaluating U.S. relations and interactions with foreign countries in the colonial...

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Main Author: Taketani, Etsuko, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects and Genres:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.
American literature.
American literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Schriftstellerin
Kolonialismus > Motiv
Geschichte 1825-1861.
United States.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • PART ONE : PEDAGOGIES OF COLONIALISM
  • Childhood and domestic colonialism : Lydia Maria Child's Juvenile miscellany
  • Geography for American children : Sarah Tuttle, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and African colonization
  • Heterosexual national economy : Eliza Leslie, Catharine Beecher, and the child on the home front
  • PART TWO : AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF U.S. IMPERIALISM
  • Colonial violence via opium addiction : Harriet Low's Macao
  • "Queer" Burma : Emily Judson in southeast Asia
  • Postcolonial Liberia : Sarah Hale's Africa
  • Conclusion : "diasporic" whiteness and the Middle East in Maria Cummins's El fureidîs.

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