TY - BOOK ID - 137799489 TI - The colonizer abroad : American writers on foreign soil, 1846-1912 PY - 2004 PB - New York : Taylor & Francis, DB - UniCat KW - Travelers' writings, American KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137799489 AB - Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society. ER -