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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taketani, Etsuko, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

History.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Colonies in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

United States women writers and the discourses of colonialism, 1825-1861

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2003]

Contents:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-226) and index.

ISBN:

1572332271

OCLC:

51799308