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American tropics : articulating Filipino America / Allan Punzalan Isaac.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Isaac, Allan Punzalan.
Series:
Critical American studies series.
Critical American studies series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Filipino Americans--Race identity.
Filipino Americans.
Racism in popular culture--United States.
Racism in popular culture.
Postcolonialism.
Imperialism--History.
Imperialism.
Filipino Americans--Study and teaching.
Imperialism in literature.
American literature--Filipino American authors--History and criticism.
American literature.
United States--Race relations.
United States.
United States--Relations--Philippines.
Philippines--Relations--United States.
Philippines.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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 Hollywood films such as Blue Hawaii and novels such as Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters.
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.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-199) and index.
ISBN:
0-8166-9555-5
OCLC:
476124039

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