Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 205 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0816642745
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0816695555
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0816642737
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9780816642748
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9780816695553
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9780816642731
Series Statement:
Critical American studies series
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Isaac, Allan Punzalan American tropics Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006
Language:
English
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