03281nam 2200769 a 450 991082539280332120200520144314.00-8166-9555-5(CKB)1000000000481151(EBL)326386(OCoLC)476124039(SSID)ssj0000102480(PQKBManifestationID)11122470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102480(PQKBWorkID)10060034(PQKB)10396161(MiAaPQ)EBC326386(OCoLC)182857102(MdBmJHUP)muse38823(Au-PeEL)EBL326386(CaPaEBR)ebr10206193(CaONFJC)MIL522405(EXLCZ)99100000000048115120060616d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican tropics articulating Filipino America /Allan Punzalan Isaac1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20061 online resource (238 p.)Critical American studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-4274-5 0-8166-4273-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-199) and index.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.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.Critical American studies series.Filipino AmericansRace identityRacism in popular cultureUnited StatesPostcolonialismImperialismHistoryFilipino AmericansStudy and teachingImperialism in literatureAmerican literatureFilipino American authorsHistory and criticismUnited StatesRace relationsUnited StatesRelationsPhilippinesPhilippinesRelationsUnited StatesFilipino AmericansRace identity.Racism in popular culturePostcolonialism.ImperialismHistory.Filipino AmericansStudy and teaching.Imperialism in literature.American literatureFilipino American authorsHistory and criticism.305.89/921073Isaac Allan Punzalan1716947MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825392803321American tropics4112629UNINA