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Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2005]

1 online resource (211 pages)

ISBN 9781611686654 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 1584654341 (hbk.)

ISBN 158465435X (pbk.)

ISBN 9781584654346

Print version: Eperjesi, John R. Imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture. Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2005] xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9781584654346

Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-189) and index

Introduction : the American Pacific : an errand into Oceania -- The "superlative and poetry of commerce" : scattered origins of an American Pacific frontier -- An American Pacific Jeremiad : Frank Norris’s The octopus and U.S. imperialism -- The American Asiatic association and the imperialist imaginary of the American Pacific -- Becoming Hawaiian : Jack London, cultural tourism, and the myth of Hawaiian exceptionalism -- Maxine Hong Kingston’s China men : frontiers of the Chinese American Pacific -- Memories of a forgotten war : a Filipino/American ghost story -- Conclusion : outside in the American Pacific.

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