Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive - Rilegato

Balce, Nerissa S.

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ISBN 10: 0472119788 ISBN 13: 9780472119783

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2016

Riassunto

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 goodwill 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.

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L'autore:

Nerissa Balce is Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York. Her work has appeared in Social Text, Peace Review, and Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism.

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• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0472119788
• ISBN 13: 9780472119783
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 223