TY - BOOK AU - Eperjesi,John R. TI - The imperialist imaginary: visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture SN - 158465435X AV - PS159 E64 I 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Hanover, NH PB - Dartmouth College Press, Published by University Press of New England, KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Asian influences KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Asia KW - In literature KW - Pacific Area KW - Foreign public opinion, American KW - Relations KW - United States N1 - Introduction : the American Pacific : an errand into Oceania -- The "superlative and poetry of commerce" : scattered origins of an American Pacific frontier -- An American Pacific Jeremiad : Frank Norris's The octopus and U.S. imperialism -- The American Asiatic association and the imperialist imaginary of the American Pacific -- Becoming Hawaiian : Jack London, cultural tourism, and the myth of Hawaiian exceptionalism -- Maxine Hong Kingston's China men : frontiers of the Chinese American Pacific -- Memories of a forgotten war : a Filipino/American ghost story -- Conclusion : outside in the American Pacific; HKBU library; YT2025 M08 ER -