Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Educated Subjects: Literary Production, Colonial Expansion, and the Pedagogical Public Sphere 1 1 The Alchemy of English: Colonial State-Building and the Imperial Origins of American Literary Study 36 2 Empire’s Proxy: Literary Study as Benevolent Discipline 69 3 Agents of Assimilation: Female Authority, Male Domesticity, and the Familial Dramas of Colonial Tutelage 104 4 The Performance of Patriotism: Ironic Affiliations and Literary Disruptions in Carlos Bulosan’s America 139 Conclusion: “An Empire of Letters”: Literary Tradition, National Sovereignty, and Neocolonialism 163 Notes 177 Bibliography 213 Index 229 About the Author 236 ...