Hemispheric Imaginings

The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire

Szerző: Gretchen Murphy

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future Europ...

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Gretchen Murphy

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2005

oldal

208

EAN

9780822334842

ISBN

0822334844

Enbook ID

04938116

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

404

Méretek

154 x 250 x 19

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In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for democracy. Over the next century, these ideas--which came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine--provided the framework through which Americans understood and articulated their military and diplomatic role in the world. Hemispheric Imaginings demonstrates that the Monroe Doctrine was conceived and developed in relation to transatlantic literary narratives. Gretchen Murphy argues that fiction and journalism were crucial to popularizing and making sense of the Doctrine's contradictions, including the fact that it both drove and concealed U.S. imperialism. Revealing fiction and popular journalism as key arenas where such inconsistencies were challenged or obscured, Murphy highlights the major role writers played in shaping conceptions of the U.S. empire. Murphy juxtaposes close readings of novels and nonfiction texts. From uncovering the literary inspirations for the Monroe Doctrine itself to tracing visions of hemispheric unity and transatlantic separation in novels by Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Lew Wallace and Richard Harding Davis, she reveals the Doctrine's forgotten cultural history. In making a vital contribution to the effort to move American Studies beyond its limited focus on the United States, Murphy questions recent proposals to reframe the discipline in hemispheric terms. She warns that to do so risks replicating the Monroe Doctrine's proprietary claim to isolate the Americas from the rest of the world.

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