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Cheyfitz 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.
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An incredibly brilliant challenge to assumptions long held by clueless white males. The patriarchal agendas of eurocentrism are here interrogated by an awe-inspiring intelligence. This is an important book, one that is a must read for those of us on the front lines combatting stereotypes.
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WE COULD UNDERSTAND these words, which I have taken out of context for the moment, from Edgar Rice Burroughs's exceptionally popular 1912 romance Tarzan of the Apes, as articulating the deepest desires of U.S. foreign policy toward the Third World in the twentieth century (243). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
alternative eloquence, figurative force, kinship economies, difficult politics, tributary mode, eloquent orator, imperial figure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Tarzan of the Apes, True Declaration, Old World, Lord Greystoke, John Smith, New England, Sea Venture, Map of Virginia, True Relation, American Indian, North America, The Columbian Orator, Third World, William Clayton, King Charles, Manifest Destiny, Marshall Court, Sir Thomas Gates, Algonquian-speaking Indians, Jane Porter, Jesus Christ, Western Europe New!
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WE COULD UNDERSTAND these words, which I have taken out of context for the moment, from Edgar Rice Burroughs's exceptionally popular 1912 romance Tarzan of the Apes, as articulating the deepest desires of U.S. foreign policy toward the Third World in the twentieth century (243). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
alternative eloquence, figurative force, kinship economies, difficult politics, tributary mode, eloquent orator, imperial figure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Tarzan of the Apes, True Declaration, Old World, Lord Greystoke, John Smith, New England, Sea Venture, Map of Virginia, True Relation, American Indian, North America, The Columbian Orator, Third World, William Clayton, King Charles, Manifest Destiny, Marshall Court, Sir Thomas Gates, Algonquian-speaking Indians, Jane Porter, Jesus Christ, Western Europe New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Tarzan of the Apes (Signet Classics) by Edgar Rice Burroughs on 6 pages
- Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan (Ballantine)) by Edgar Rice Burroughs on 6 pages
- The American Indian and the Problem of History by Calvin Martin on 5 pages
- The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper on 4 pages
- The Garden of Eloquence (1593) by Henry Peacham on 4 pages
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- Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages, Cultures (Irish cultural studies) by Michael Cronin on page 126, page 163, and Back Matter
- Across the Lines: Travel Language and Translation by Michael Cronin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice (Translation Studies) by Susan Bassnett in Front Matter
- National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men (New Americanists) by Dana D. Nelson in Back Matter
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