American tropics [[electronic resource] ] : articulating Filipino America / / Allan Punzalan Isaac

• Autore: Isaac Allan Punzalan
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8166-9555-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778271203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical American studies series.