Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies

by Malini Johar Schueller

When exploring the links between America and postcolonialism, scholars tend to think either in terms of contemporary multiculturalism, or of imperialism since 1898. This narrow view has left more than the two prior centuries of colonizing literary and political culture unexamined. Messy Beginnings challenges the idea of early America's immunity from issues of imperialism, that its history is not as "clean" as European colonialism. By addressing the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813532337
• ISBN13: 9780813532332
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"