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Body parts of empire : visual abjection, Filipino images, and the American archive / Nerissa Balce.
LIBRA DS682 .A155 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balce, Nerissa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Sex--Political aspects.
- History.
- Sex.
- Racism--Political aspects.
- Human body--Political aspects.
- Visual communication--Political aspects.
- Visual communication.
- Imperialism--Social aspects.
- Imperialism.
- Colonization.
- Social aspects.
- Philippines--History--Philippine American War, 1899-1902--Social aspects.
- Philippines.
- Philippines--History--Philippine American War, 1899-1902--Sources.
- Philippines--Colonization--Social aspects--History.
- Imperialism--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Visual communication--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Human body--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Human body.
- Racism--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Sex--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Philippines--Relations--United States.
- United States.
- United States--Relations--Philippines.
- Colonization--Social aspects.
- International relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the human body, including the moving camera, stereoscopes, and more efficient print technologies for mass media. Rather than focusing on canonical American authors who wrote at the time of U.S. imperialism, this book examines abject texts--images of naked savages, corpses, clothed native elites, and uniformed American soldiers--as well as bodies of writing that document the good will and violence of American expansion in the Philippine colony. Contributing to the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and gender studies, the book analyzes the actual archive of the Philippine-American War and how the racialization and sexualization of the Filipino colonial native have always been part of the cultures of America and U.S. imperialism. By focusing on the Filipino native as an abject body of the American imperial imaginary, this study offers a historical materialist optic for reading the cultures of Filipino America"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Nothing but objects: America's shadow archive
- The abject archive of the Philippine-American War
- Face: necropolitcs and the U.S. imperial photography complex
- Skin: lynching, empire, and the Black press during the Philippine-American war
- The bile of race: white women's travel writing on the Philippine-American war
- Blood and bones: the romance of counterinsurgency.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780472119783
- 0472119788
- OCLC:
- 949986778
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