"A superb collection of essays that presents a unique model for a Post-American cultural studies. As a whole, the volume argues persuasively for the centrality of culture in the study of imperialist politics and the defining significance of imperialism in U.S. cultural formations."--Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
"A superb collection of essays that presents a unique model for a Post-American cultural studies. As a whole, the volume argues persuasively for the centrality of culture in the study of imperialist politics and the defining significance of imperialism in U.S. cultural formations."--Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
Introduction "Left Alone with America": The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture / Amy Kaplan 3 New Perspectives on U.S. Culture and Imperialism / Donald E. Pease 22 1. Nation-Building as Empire-Building Why Did the Europeans Cross the Ocean? A Seventeenth-Century Riddle / Myra Jehlen 41 Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation / Priscilla Wald 59 The Naming of Yale College: British Imperialism and American Higher Education / Gauri Viswanathan 85 Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and The Pioneers / Eric Cheyfitz 109 Science Fiction, the World's Fair, and the Prosthetics of Empire, 1910-1915 / Bill Brown 129 Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" and the Mythologization of the American Empire / Richard Slotkin 164 II. Borderline Negotiations of Race, Gender, and Nation White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael 185 Black and Blue on San Juan Hill / Amy Kaplan 219 Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway 237 Americo Paredes and Decolonization / Jose David Saldivar 292 Pious Sites: Chamorro Culture Between Spanish Catholicism and American Liberal Individualism / Vicente M. Diaz 312 Plotting the Border: John Reed, Pancho Villa, and Insurgent Mexico / Christopher P. Wilson 340 III. Colonizing Resistance or Resisting Colonization? Anti-Imperial Americanism / Walter Benn Michaels 365 Appeals for (Mis)recognition: Theorizing the Diaspora / Kenneth W. Warren 392 Resisting the Heat: Menchu, Morrison, and Incompetent Readers / Doris Sommer 407 Black Americans' Racial Uplift Ideology as "Civilizing Mission": Pauline E. Hopkins on Race and Imperialism / Kevin Gaines 433 From Liberalism to Communism: The Political Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois / William E. Cain 456 White Like Me: Racial Cross-Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness / Eric Lott 474 IV. Imperial Spectacles "Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics [and] The Sequel / Michael Rogin 499 The Patriot System, or Managerial Heroism / Susan Jeffords 535 Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, and the Gulf War Post-National Spectacles / Donald E. Pease 557 Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": From the Quagmire to the Gulf / Lynda Boose 581 "Bwana Mickey": Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland / Mary Yoko Brannen 617 We Think, Therefore They Are? On Occidentalizing the World / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington 635 Index 657 Contributors 669
Introduction "Left Alone with America": The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture / Amy Kaplan 3 New Perspectives on U.S. Culture and Imperialism / Donald E. Pease 22 1. Nation-Building as Empire-Building Why Did the Europeans Cross the Ocean? A Seventeenth-Century Riddle / Myra Jehlen 41 Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation / Priscilla Wald 59 The Naming of Yale College: British Imperialism and American Higher Education / Gauri Viswanathan 85 Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and The Pioneers / Eric Cheyfitz 109 Science Fiction, the World's Fair, and the Prosthetics of Empire, 1910-1915 / Bill Brown 129 Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" and the Mythologization of the American Empire / Richard Slotkin 164 II. Borderline Negotiations of Race, Gender, and Nation White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael 185 Black and Blue on San Juan Hill / Amy Kaplan 219 Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway 237 Americo Paredes and Decolonization / Jose David Saldivar 292 Pious Sites: Chamorro Culture Between Spanish Catholicism and American Liberal Individualism / Vicente M. Diaz 312 Plotting the Border: John Reed, Pancho Villa, and Insurgent Mexico / Christopher P. Wilson 340 III. Colonizing Resistance or Resisting Colonization? Anti-Imperial Americanism / Walter Benn Michaels 365 Appeals for (Mis)recognition: Theorizing the Diaspora / Kenneth W. Warren 392 Resisting the Heat: Menchu, Morrison, and Incompetent Readers / Doris Sommer 407 Black Americans' Racial Uplift Ideology as "Civilizing Mission": Pauline E. Hopkins on Race and Imperialism / Kevin Gaines 433 From Liberalism to Communism: The Political Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois / William E. Cain 456 White Like Me: Racial Cross-Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness / Eric Lott 474 IV. Imperial Spectacles "Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics [and] The Sequel / Michael Rogin 499 The Patriot System, or Managerial Heroism / Susan Jeffords 535 Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, and the Gulf War Post-National Spectacles / Donald E. Pease 557 Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": From the Quagmire to the Gulf / Lynda Boose 581 "Bwana Mickey": Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland / Mary Yoko Brannen 617 We Think, Therefore They Are? On Occidentalizing the World / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington 635 Index 657 Contributors 669
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