JOURNAL ARTICLE

Transpacific Tarzan: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Japanese Internment, and America's Pacific War.

  • Published In: Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 2025, v. 11, n. 1. P. 167 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Hurley, Brian 3 of 3

Abstract

The essay explores Edgar Rice Burroughs' writings on Japan, Japanese Americans, and Japanese internment during World War II, focusing on his iconic character Tarzan. Burroughs, living in Hawai'i during the Pearl Harbor attack, became the oldest American war correspondent in the Pacific theater. His writings document the transpacific turn in his late career, examining the dialectics of freedom and control in the modern world. Burroughs' novel "Tarzan and the Foreign Legion" portrays American civilian-soldiers as defenders of freedom against the cruel and doctrinaire Japanese invaders in Sumatra during World War II. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Verge: Studies in Global Asias. 2025/03, Vol. 11, Issue 1, p167
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:23735058
  • DOI:10.1353/vrg.2025.a951542
  • Accession Number:183782921
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