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Manifesting America :Imperialism and national space, 1776--1861.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Manifesting America :
Reminder of title:	Imperialism and national space, 1776--1861.
Author:	Rifkin, Mark S.
Description:	390 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Eric Cheyfitz.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3689.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	Literature, American.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3109214
ISBN:	0496567578

Manifesting America :Imperialism and national space, 1776--1861.
Rifkin, Mark S.

Manifesting America :Imperialism and national space, 1776--1861. [electronic resource] - 390 p.

Adviser: Eric Cheyfitz.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2003.

A rich body of scholarship has emerged in American Studies over the last decade calling for increased attention to the role of U.S. imperialism in the structuring of national politics and culture and assessing the imperial dimensions of specific literary texts. Less attention, however, has been paid to defining imperialism as a system or to situating the oppositional discourses of affected groups within a shared framework. This dissertation demonstrates how the representation of national boundaries in the antebellum period functions as imperial force by illustrating how U.S. administrative discourses produce and manage the difference between domestic and foreign space, examining how such institutionalized mappings of the nation legitimize expansion at "home" and exploitation "abroad." Drawing heavily on the theoretical and methodological insights of Subaltern Studies and Critical Race Theory, the dissertation further shows how the possibilities of self-representation for African Americans, Native Americans (especially the Cherokee and indigenous peoples of California), Mexican Americans, and Native Hawaiians were shaped by the territorial imaginary of U.S. law and diplomacy. Through readings of a range of different kinds of texts (such as memorials, autobiographies, histories, newspaper articles, and constitutions) and a variety of authors (such as Harriet Jacobs, Elias Boudinot, Antonio Maria Osio, Julio Cesar, and Davida Malo), it illustrates how these populations both appropriated and rejected the terms/topologies of U.S. policy in constructing oppositional identities, subjectivities, and mappings.

ISBN: 0496567578Subjects--Topical Terms:

212571
Literature, American.

Manifesting America :Imperialism and national space, 1776--1861.
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