The Poetics of Imperialism

Trnslaion and colonisation from "The Tempst" to "Tarzan". The author charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Reinaissance Europeans in a new World open for material and rethorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century America in a Third Worldjudged equally in need of cultural translation. Passinately and provocatively, he readsm James Fenimore Cooper and Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederik Douglass and Edgar Rice Burroughs Within and against the imperial framework. At the center of the book is Shakespeare´s "Tempest", figurin much of American literature.