Shadowing the White Man's Burden : U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line / Gretchen Murphy.
2010
PS374.R32 M87 2016
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Shadowing the White Man's Burden : U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line / Gretchen Murphy.
Author
Murphy, Gretchen, author.
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9780814759592
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New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
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©2010
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814795989.001.0001 doi
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PS374.R32 M87 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.4093552
Summary
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 channeled 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 color 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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America and the Long 19th Century ; ; 24
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Reading Kipling in America
1. The Burden of Whiteness
2. The White Man's Burden or the Leopard's Spots?
Part II. The Black Cosmopolite
3. The Plain Citizen of Black Orientalism
4. Pauline Hopkins's "International Policy"
Part III. Pacific Expansion and Transnational Fictions of Race
5. How the Irish Became Japanese
6. American Indians, Asiatics, and Anglo-Saxons
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Reading Kipling in America
1. The Burden of Whiteness
2. The White Man's Burden or the Leopard's Spots?
Part II. The Black Cosmopolite
3. The Plain Citizen of Black Orientalism
4. Pauline Hopkins's "International Policy"
Part III. Pacific Expansion and Transnational Fictions of Race
5. How the Irish Became Japanese
6. American Indians, Asiatics, and Anglo-Saxons
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author