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The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan

By Eric Cheyfitz
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By Eric Cheyfitz
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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 fram...

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