03583oam 2200601 450 991015470560332120180606235318.00-472-12175-810.3998/mpub.8841993(CKB)4340000000023014(MiAaPQ)EBC4768826(OCoLC)965825428(MdBmJHUP)muse54265(MiU)10.3998/mpub.8841993(EXLCZ)99434000000002301420160913d2016 ub 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBody parts of empire visual abjection, Filipino images, and the American archive /Nerissa S. BalceAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,[2016]1 online resource (239 pages) illustrations, photographs0-472-11978-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-218) and index."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.ImperialismSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryVisual communicationPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryHuman bodyPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryRacismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistorySexPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryPhilippinesHistoryPhilippine American War, 1899-1902Social aspectsPhilippinesHistoryPhilippine American War, 1899-1902SourcesPhilippinesColonizationSocial aspectsHistoryPhilippinesRelationsUnited StatesUnited StatesRelationsPhilippinesElectronic books.ImperialismSocial aspectsHistory.Visual communicationPolitical aspectsHistory.Human bodyPolitical aspectsHistory.RacismPolitical aspectsHistory.SexPolitical aspectsHistory.959.9/031LIT004020bisacshBalce Nerissa1245615Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910154705603321Body parts of empire2888809UNINA