Shadowing the White Man's Burden

U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line

Autor: Gretchen Murphy

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Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White...

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Autor

Gretchen Murphy

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2010

Pagini

288

EAN

9780814795989

ISBN

0814795986

Enbook ID

04932851

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

498

Dimensiuni

153 x 229 x 23

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During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man's Burden". While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling's satirical talents at work and read it as condemnation. Gretchen Murphy explores this tension embedded in the notion of the white man's burden to create a new historical frame for understanding race and literature in America. "Shadowing the White Man's Burden" maintains that literature symptomized and channelled anxiety about the racial components of the U.S. world mission, while also providing a potentially powerful medium for multiethnic authors interested in redrawing global colour lines. Through a range of archival materials from literary reviews to diplomatic records to ethnological treatises, Murphy identifies a common theme in the writings of African-, Asian- and Native-American authors who exploited anxiety about race and national identity through narratives about a multiracial U.S. empire. "Shadowing the White Man's Burden" situates American literature in the context of broader race relations, and provides a compelling analysis of the way in which literature came to define and shape racial attitudes for the next century.

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