The poetics of imperialism : translation and colonization from The tempest to Tarzan / Eric Cheyfitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheyfitz, Eric.

Contributor:

Isaac Norris Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

American literature--European influences.

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

History.

Imperialism in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1997]

Summary:

Selected by "Choice" magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookCheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century America in a Third World judged equally in need of cultural translation. Passionately and provocatively, he reads James Fenimore Cooper and Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, and Edgar Rice Burroughs within and against the imperial framework.At the center of the book is Shakespeare's "Tempest," at once transfiguring the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown and prefiguring much of American literature. In a new, final chapter, Cheyfitz reaches back to the representations of Native Americans produced by the English decades before the establishment of the Jamestown colony.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.

ISBN:

0812216091

OCLC:

35885835