Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Shadowing the White Man′s Burden – U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line: America and the Long 19th Century

Autor Gretchen Murphy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2010
During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem The White Man’s Burden. While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling’s satirical talents at work and read it as condemnation. Gretchen Murphy explores this tension embedded in the notion of the white man’s burden to create a new historical frame for understanding race and literature in America.Shadowing the White Man’s Burden maintains that literature symptomized and channelled anxiety about the racial components of the U.S. world mission, while also providing a potentially powerful medium for multiethnic authors interested in redrawing global colour lines. Through a range of archival materials from literary reviews to diplomatic records to ethnological treatises, Murphy identifies a common theme in the writings of African-, Asian- and Native-American authors who exploited anxiety about race and national identity through narratives about a multiracial U.S. empire. Shadowing the White Man’s Burden situates American literature in the context of broader race relations, and provides a compelling analysis of the way in which literature came to define and shape racial attitudes for the next century.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 23671 lei  6-8 săpt.
  MI – New York University – 2 mai 2010 23671 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 51538 lei  6-8 săpt.
  MI – New York University – 2 mai 2010 51538 lei  6-8 săpt.

Din seria America and the Long 19th Century

Preț: 23671 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 355

Preț estimativ în valută:
4531 4709$ 3753£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 04-18 februarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814795996
ISBN-10: 0814795994
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 5 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MI – New York University
Seria America and the Long 19th Century


Recenzii

“This impressive book, which is based on extensive archival research, shows how the transformation of racial categories at the turn of the century was a multidirectional process that often generated new meanings. Murphy reveals how multiple imperial histories shaped changing ideas about race and how readers and writers who engaged the trope of the white man’s burden exposed contradictory ideas about whiteness as a domestic and transnational racial construct. Shadowing the White Man’s Burden is part of an exciting new body of work on race in transnational contexts. It is one of the best accounts we have of the significance of literature in transformations of and contests over race in this period.” Shelley Streeby, author of American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture

Notă biografică


Descriere

Identifies common themes in the writings of African-, Asian-, and Native-American authors who exploited anxiety about race and national identity