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American tropics : articulating Filipino America / / Allan Punzalan Isaac



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Autore: Isaac Allan Punzalan Visualizza persona
Titolo: American tropics : articulating Filipino America / / Allan Punzalan Isaac Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
Disciplina: 305.89/921073
Soggetto topico: Filipino Americans - Race identity
Racism in popular culture - United States
Postcolonialism
Imperialism - History
Filipino Americans - Study and teaching
Imperialism in literature
American literature - Filipino American authors - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
United States Relations Philippines
Philippines Relations United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-199) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: American tropics  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9555-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825392803321
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Serie: Critical American studies series.