{"product_id":"poetics-of-imperialism-eric-cheyfitz-9780812216097","title":"Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from the Tempest to Tarzan (Expanded)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCheyfitz 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 framework. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of the book is Shakespeare's \"Tempest,\" at once transfiguring the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown and prefiguring much of American literature. In a new, final chapter, Cheyfitz reaches back to the representations of Native Americans produced by the English decades before the establishment of the Jamestown colony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Cheyfitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812216091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812216097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 5.08w x 0.55d","brand":"Eric Cheyfitz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926352199935,"sku":"9780812216097","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_51c4de71-de2d-45eb-9c72-183df07d1689.jpg?v=1681082596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poetics-of-imperialism-eric-cheyfitz-9780812216097","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}