
The Poetics of Imperialism
Translation and Colonization from the Tempest to Tarzan
Eric Cheyfitz(Author)
University of Pennsylvania Press
Published on 29. June 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-8122-1609-7 (ISBN)
Description
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"A provocative and insightful book." (Modern Philology)More details
Edition
Expanded Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-1609-7 (9780812216097)
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Person
Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.