U.S. women writers and the discourses of colonialism, 1825-1861 / Etsuko Taketani.

Author/creator Taketani, Etsuko, 1960-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2003.
Descriptionx, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Variant title United States women writers and the discourses of colonialism, 1825-1861
Contents Pedagogies of colonialism. Childhood and domestic colonialism : Lydia Maria Child's Juvenile miscellany ; Geography for American children : Sarah Tuttle, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and African colonization ; Heterosexual national economy : Eliza Leslie, Catharine Beecher, and the child on the home front -- An alternative history of U.S. imperialism. Colonial violence via opium addiction : Harriet Low's Macao ; "Queer" Burma : Emily Judson in southeast Asia ; Postcolonial Liberia : Sarah Hale's Africa ; Conclusion : "diasporic" whiteness and the Middle East in Maria Cummins's El fureidîs.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-226) and index.
LCCN 2003004039
ISBN1572332271 (cl. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS228.I6 T35 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold