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Transpacific femininities : the making of the modern Filipina / Denise Cruz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cruz, Denise, 1975-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philippine literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Philippine literature (English).
- Feminist literature--Philippines.
- Feminist literature.
- Women and literature--Philippines.
- Women and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on the early to mid-twentieth century, Denise Cruz illuminates the role that a growing English-language Philippine print culture played in the emergence of new classes of transpacific women.
- Contents:
- Cartographies of the transpacific Filipina
- Nationalism, modernity, and feminism's haunted intersections
- Plotting a transpacific Filipina's destiny : romances of elite exceptionalism
- New order practicality and guerrilla domesticity : the Pacific war's Filipina
- "Pointing to the heart" : transpacific Filipinas and the question of Cold War Philippine-U.S. relations.
- Notes:
- "An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared in American Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue I, March 2011, pages1-32."--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283742405
- 1283742403
- 9780822395652
- 0822395657
- OCLC:
- 839670611
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