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"In 'Empire's Mistress' Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur's b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Temas:
Cooper, Isabel Rosario, > 1914-1960.
MacArthur, Douglas, > 1880-1964 > Relations with women.
MacArthur, Douglas, > 1880-1964
Motion picture actors and actresses > Philippines > Manila > Biography.
Filipino American women > Biography.
Filipino American women > Archival resources > Social aspects.
Mistresses > Archival resources > Social aspects.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Américaines d'origine philippine > Biographies.
Américaines d'origine philippine > Fonds d'archives > Aspect social.
Maîtresses > Fonds d'archives > Aspect social.
Impérialisme > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
Filipino American women
Imperialism > Social aspects
Motion picture actors and actresses
Relations with women
Philippines > Manila
Biographical fiction
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographical fiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In 'Empire's Mistress' Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur's biography—a failed love affair between a venerated war hero and a young woman of Filipino and American heritage. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington, D.C. to Hollywood, where she died penniless, Gonzalez frames her not as a tragic heroine, but as someone caught within the violent histories of U.S. imperialism. In this way, Gonzalez uses Cooper's life as a means to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships. Along the way, Gonzalez fills in the archival gaps of Cooper's life with speculative fictional interludes that both unsettle the authority of “official” archives and dislodge the established one-dimensional characterizations of her. By presenting Cooper as a complex historical subject who lived at the crossroads of American colonialism in the Philippines, Gonzalez demonstrates how intimacy and love are woven into the infrastructure of empire"--Publisher's website.
"Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
ISBN:1478021314
9781478021315

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