Empire and Literary Production: Imperial Imagination and National Narrative in American Literature
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This book examines the interaction and tension between imperial discourse and national narrative in American literature (1832-1918), and explores how American literature, as an ideological representation, reflects the political culture and power relations of the empire. By analyzing regional imagination, representation and myth construction in American literary works, we explore the presentation of imperial discourse and national narrative in American literature. The history of the development of the American nation-state is also a history of intertwined national construction and imperial imagination. The tension between the two runs throughout, making each stage of its development carry the imprint of imperial discourse politics. It not only demonstrates the changes in American social concepts, but also reflects Americans' territorial awareness, imperial imagination, and national identity construction.
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