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Empire's Proxy - American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines (Paperback)
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Empire's Proxy - American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines (Paperback)
Series: American Literatures Initiative
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In 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.
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