American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (Critical

American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (Critical American Studies)
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In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing â€œto be everywhere and nowhere,â€ Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the United States, symptomatic of American imperialismâ€™s invisibility to itself. In American Tropics, Isaac explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other â€œunincorporatedâ€ parts of the U.S. nation that obscure the contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies.Isaac boldly examines the American empireâ€™s images of the Philippines in turn-of-the-century legal debates over Puerto Rico, Progressive-era popular literature set in Latin American borderlands, and midcentury Hollywood cinema staged in Hawaiâ€˜i and the Pacific islands. Isaac scrutinizes media coverage of the Cunanan case, Boy Scout adventure novels, and Hollywood films such as The Real Glory (1939) and Blue Hawaii (1961) to argue that territorial sites of occupation are an important part of American identity. American Tropics further reveals the imperial imaginationâ€™s role in shaping national meaning in novels such as Carlos Bulosanâ€™s America Is in the Heart (1946) and Jessica Hagedornâ€™s Dogeaters (1990), Filipino American novels forced to articulate the empireâ€™s enfolded but disavowed borders.Tracing the American empire from the beginning of the twentieth century to Philippine liberation and the U.S. civil rights movement, American Tropics lays bare Filipino Americansâ€™ unique form of belonging marked indelibly by imperialism and at odds with U.S. racial politics and culture.Allan Punzalan Isaac is assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University.
Country USA
Brand Univ Of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780816642748
ReleaseDate 2006-10-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780816642748

Country	USA
Brand	Univ Of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer	Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780816642748
ReleaseDate	2006-10-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780816642748

American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (Critical American Studies)

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