American tropics : articulating Filipino America /

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In American Tropics, Allan Punzalan Isaac explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other "unincorporated" parts of the US nation that obscure the contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies. Isaac examines the American empires images of the Philippines in Hollyw...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Isaac, Allan Punzalan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
Series:Critical American studies series.
Subjects:
Filipino Americans > Race identity.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
Postcolonialism.
Imperialism > History.
Filipino Americans > Study and teaching.
Imperialism in literature.
American literature > Filipino American authors > History and criticism.
Américains d'origine philippine > Identité ethnique.
Racisme dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Postcolonialisme.
Impérialisme > Histoire.
Américains d'origine philippine > Étude et enseignement.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine philippine > Histoire et critique.
postcolonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
American literature > Filipino American authors
Imperialism
Imperialism in literature
International relations
Postcolonialism
Race relations
Racism in popular culture
United States > Race relations.
United States > Relations > Philippines.
Philippines > Relations > United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
Philippines
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • American tropics
  • Disappearing clauses : reconstituting America in the unincorporated territories
  • Moral sentences : Boy Scouts and novel encounters with empire
  • Imperial romance : framing manifest destiny in the Pacific
  • Reconstituting American subjects : proximate masculinities
  • Reconstituting American predicates : troping the American tour d'horizon.

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