LEADER 04769nam 2200829 a 450 001 9910807155403321 005 20250322110036.0 010 $a9780814795415 010 $a0814795412 010 $a9780814794784 010 $a0814794785 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814795415 035 $a(CKB)2670000000092745 035 $a(EBL)866130 035 $a(OCoLC)779828431 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522298 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11381415 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522298 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528454 035 $a(PQKB)11012807 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326182 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866130 035 $a(OCoLC)727951027 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4794 035 $a(DE-B1597)547569 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814795415 035 $a(Perlego)720183 035 $a(ODN)ODN0002947234 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000092745 100 $a20100524d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmpire's proxy $eAmerican literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines /$fMeg Wesling 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2011 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 1 $aAmerica and the long 19th century 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8147-9476-9 311 08$a0-8147-9477-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: educated subjects: literary production, colonial expansion, and the pedagogical public sphere -- The alchemy of English: colonial state-building and the imperial origins of American literary study -- Empire's proxy: literary study as benevolent discipline -- Agents of assimilation: female authority, male domesticity, and the familial dramas of colonial tutelage -- The performance of patriotism: ironic affiliations and literary disruptions in Carlos Bulosan's America -- Conclusion: "An empire of letters": literary tradition, national sovereignty, and neocolonialism. 330 $aIn the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley?s project of ?benevolent assimilation,? they established a school system that centered on English language and American literature to advance the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, which was held up as justification for the U.S.?s civilizing mission and offered as a promise of moral uplift and political advancement. Meanwhile, on American soil, the field of American literature was just being developed and fundamentally, though invisibly, defined by this new, extraterritorial expansion. Drawing on a wealth of material, including historical records, governmental documents from the War Department and the Bureau of Insular Affairs, curriculum guides, memoirs of American teachers in the Philippines, and 19th century literature, Meg Wesling not only links empire with education, but also demonstrates that the rearticulation of American literary studies through the imperial occupation in the Philippines served to actually define and strengthen the field. Empire?s Proxy boldly argues that the practical and ideological work of colonial dominance figured into the emergence of the field of American literature, and that the consolidation of a canon of American literature was intertwined with the administrative and intellectual tasks of colonial management. 410 0$aAmerica and the long 19th century. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aPhilippine literature (English) 606 $aAmericans$zPhilippines 606 $aAmerican literature$xFilipino American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zPhilippines 607 $aPhilippines$xRelations$zUnited States 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aPhilippine literature (English) 615 0$aAmericans 615 0$aAmerican literature$xFilipino American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 676 $a810.9/358599032 700 $aWesling$b Meg$01704439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807155403321 996 $aEmpire?s Proxy$94090477 997 $aUNINA