Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper /

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"Empire's Mistress centers the life of Isabel Rosario Cooper, a mixed race vaudeville and film actor from the Philippines, notorious for being Douglas MacArthur's one-time mistress. Tracking her story through absences and traces in the archive, Gonzalez explores empire on the scale of...

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Main Author: Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
MacArthur, Douglas, > 1880-1964.
MacArthur, Douglas, > 1880-1964 > Relations with women.
Cooper, Isabel Rosario, > 1914-1960.
Relations with women.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Filipino American women.
Filipino American women > Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Philippines > Manila > Biography.
Philippines > Manila.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Empire's Mistress centers the life of Isabel Rosario Cooper, a mixed race vaudeville and film actor from the Philippines, notorious for being Douglas MacArthur's one-time mistress. Tracking her story through absences and traces in the archive, Gonzalez explores empire on the scale of the intimate. Cooper's itinerant life-from Manila, to Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles-is a rich text for understanding the mobilities and opportunities available to women like her in the first half of the twentieth century. Empire's Mistress wrests the story of Isabel Cooper away from the plot of the tragic Eurasian, while attending to the haunting legacies of race, sex, and empire that define her life, both onstage/onscreen, and off"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (227 pages): illustrations, facsimiles ;
ISBN:9781478021315

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