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@article{ART002452418},
author={KANGYL KO},
title={American Imperialism and Sentimentalism},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2019},
volume={54},
pages={1-18},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1}

TY - JOUR
AU - KANGYL KO
TI - American Imperialism and Sentimentalism
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2019
VL - 54
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 1
EP - 18
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This essay explores the way in which American imperial policy and its counter discourse appropriate the nineteenth century American sentimental literature. I consider Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and its reception in the colonial context of the Philippines. In doing so, my essay critiques imperialistic impulses embedded in the politics of racialized domesticity advanced by Stowe's text. This essay then queries Carols Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel, America Is in the Heart, in order to trace the trajectory of the discourse of American imperial domesticity in the early twentieth-century Philippines and the United States. Looking closely at Bulosan's portrayal of the Filipino colonial subject's negotiation with the discourse of “benevolent assimilation,” I read his novel as a cultural space in which the imperative of the racialized domesticity is endorsed or questioned. This essay concludes that America Is in the Heart offers a serious critique of racist and classed assumption of the imperial domesticity.
KW - Stowe;Uncle Tom's Cabin;American Imperialism;Bulosan;America Is in the Heart;Sentimentalism
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1
ER -

KANGYL KO. (2019). American Imperialism and Sentimentalism. Cross-Cultural Studies, 54, 1-18.

KANGYL KO. 2019, "American Imperialism and Sentimentalism", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.54, pp.1-18. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1

KANGYL KO "American Imperialism and Sentimentalism" Cross-Cultural Studies 54 pp.1-18 (2019) : 1.

KANGYL KO. American Imperialism and Sentimentalism. 2019; 54 1-18. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1

KANGYL KO. "American Imperialism and Sentimentalism" Cross-Cultural Studies 54(2019) : 1-18.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1

KANGYL KO. American Imperialism and Sentimentalism. Cross-Cultural Studies, 54, 1-18. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1

KANGYL KO. American Imperialism and Sentimentalism. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2019; 54 1-18. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1

KANGYL KO. American Imperialism and Sentimentalism. 2019; 54 1-18. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1

KANGYL KO. "American Imperialism and Sentimentalism" Cross-Cultural Studies 54(2019) : 1-18.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2019.54..1