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Body parts of empire : visual abjection, Filipino images, and the American archive /

Statement of responsibility: Nerissa S. Balce
by Balce, Nerissa S.
Type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c2017Description: 223 pages : illustrations.ISBN: 9789715507929.Subject(s): Imperialism -- United States -- History -- Social aspects | Visual communication -- United States -- History -- Political aspects | Human body -- United States -- Political aspects -- History | Racism -- United States -- Political aspects | Sex -- United States -- History -- Political aspects | Philippines -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- Philippines | Philippines -- History -- Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 -- Social aspects | Philippines -- History -- Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 -- Sources | Philippines -- Colonization -- Social aspects -- History
Contents:
Introduction. Nothing but objects : America's shadow archive -- The Abject Archive of the Philippine-American War -- Face : necropolitics and the U.S. imperial photography complex -- Skin : lynching, empire, and the black press during the Philippine-American War -- The bile of race : white women's travel writing on the Philippine-American War -- Conclusion. Blood and bones : the romance of counterinsurgency
Language/Translation Info: EnglishSummary: "...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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Introduction. Nothing but objects : America's shadow archive -- The Abject Archive of the Philippine-American War -- Face : necropolitics and the U.S. imperial photography complex -- Skin : lynching, empire, and the black press during the Philippine-American War -- The bile of race : white women's travel writing on the Philippine-American War -- Conclusion. Blood and bones : the romance of counterinsurgency

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