The Great Formosan Impostor
Author | : Frederic J. Foley |
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Frederic J. Foley |
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Authors |
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Author | : Frederic J. Foley (s.j.) |
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Frederic J. Foley |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Impostors and imposture |
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Michael Keevak |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814331989 |
The Pretended Asian also traces Psalmanazar's later career as a Grub Street hack writer and how his lifelong refusal to reveal his real identity - even after Europeans stopped believing he was a native of Formosa - may have rendered Psalmanazar a permanent outsider."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Isaac Disraeli |
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Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1835 |
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Author | : Robert Crichton |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374715882 |
In this forthright account of a remarkable fraud inFerdinand Waldo Demara, Robert Crichton presents the man, his reasons, and his methods. A New York Times bestseller when it was originally published in 1959, and serving as the inspiration for the Tony Curtis film of the same name, this is the fascinating and disturbing story of America’s Great Impostor. The fantastic lives and careers of Ferdinand Waldo Demara make a fantastic irony of the platitude that truth is stranger than fiction. For with Ferdinand Demara, truth is fiction. Demara wanted to be a hero, to lead an epic life dedicated to the benefit of others, and to gain adulation for himself, and he did all those things by lying to others about who he was. During his storied career, Ferdinand Demara managed to “become” a Trappist monk; a doctor of psychology and Dean of the School of Philosophy at a small college in Pennsylvania; a law student, zoology graduate, cancer researcher and teacher at a junior college in Maine; a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (as medical officer on the destroyed Cayuga, he successfully performed major surgery); a brilliant assistant warden of a Texas prison; and a teacher and beloved idol of the children on a Maine island village.
Author | : Richard M. Swiderski |
Publisher | : Mellen University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This is reconsideration of the Assyrian Christian scholar and confidence man George Psalmanazar who dazzled 18th-century London in the disguise of a Chinese savant. Swiderski explores the fabulism and credulity of the time as well as analyzing the scientific curiosity aroused by Psalmanazar's writings.
Author | : Christopher L. Miller |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2018-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022659114X |
“Miller takes us on an exciting tour of postcolonial and world literature, guiding us through the literary maze of the real and the pretenders to the real.” —Ngugi wa Thiong’o, author of Wizard of the Crow Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the “intercultural hoax.” In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree and JT LeRoy’s Sarah are two infamous examples. Miller’s contribution is to study hoaxes beyond our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as Miller demonstrates, this too is a ruse: French universalism can only go so far and do so much. There is plenty of otherness to appropriate. This French and Francophone tradition of imposture has never received the study it deserves. Taking a novel approach to this understudied tradition, Impostors examines hoaxes in both countries, finding similar practices of deception and questions of harm. “In this fascinating study of intercultural literary hoaxes, Christopher L. Miller provides a useful, brief history of American literary impostures as a backdrop for his investigation of France’s literary history of ‘ethnic usurpation.’” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times–bestselling author
Author | : Robert Crichton |
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Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1963 |
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