1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456858803321

Autore

Rodriguez Dylan

Titolo

Suspended Apocalypse [[electronic resource] ] : White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition / / Dylan Rodriguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8166-7073-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

973.049921

Soggetti

Filipinos - Social conditions

Racism - United States

Genocide - Philippines

Electronic books.

Philippines Relations United States

United States Relations Philippines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Filipino American communion: cultural alienation and the conditions of community -- Deformed nationalism and arrested raciality: the grammar and problematic of a Filipino American common sense -- Its very familiarity disguises its horror: white supremacy, genocide, and the statecraft of Pacifica Americana -- Suspended apocalypse: toward a fanonian analytic of the Filipino condition -- Death was swiftly running after us: disaster, evil, and radical possibility.

Sommario/riassunto

Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan Rodríguez provides a sophisticated analysis of the Filipino presence in the American imaginary. Radically critiquing current conceptions of Filipino American identity, community, and history, he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, rooted in the early twentieth-century military, political, and cultural subjugation of the Philippines by the United States.Suspended Apocalypse critically addresses wh



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828758403321

Autore

Wilder Thornton

Titolo

The collected short plays of Thornton Wilder . Volume II / / edited by A. Tappan Wilder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Theatre Communications Group, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-55936-814-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

812.5408

Soggetti

American drama - 20th century

American drama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface by A. Tappan Wilder; Introduction by A.R. Gurney ; Part I THE ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATERS AND OTHER PLAYS Three-Minute Plays for Three Persons and The Marriage We Deplore; Foreword by Thornton Wilder; Nascuntur Poetae ...; Proserpina and the Devil; Fanny Otcott; Brother Fire; The Penny That Beauty Spent; The Angel on the Ship; The Message and Jehanne; Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ; Centaurs; Leviathan; And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead ; Now the Servant's Name Was Malchus; Mozart and the Gray Steward; Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job? ; The Flight into Egypt

The Angel That Troubled the WatersThe Marriage We Deplore; Part II THE UNERRING INSTINCT A Play In One Act ; Part III ""THE EMPORIUM""; Scenes from ""The Emporium""; Notes Toward ""The Emporium""; Part IV THE ALCESTIAD With Its Satyr Play THE DRUNKEN SISTERS; Foreword by Isabel Wilder; Notes on The Alcestiad ; Some Thoughts on Playwriting by Thornton Wilder; Bibliographic and Production Notes

Sommario/riassunto

<div>The second and concluding volume of Thornton Wilder's short plays.</div>