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

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction. Nothing but Objects: America's Shadow Archive; Chapter 1. The Abject Archive of the Philippine-American War; Chapter 2. Face: Necropolitics and the U.S. Imperial Photography Complex; Chapter 3. Skin: Lynching, Empire, and the Black Press during the Philippine-American War; Chapter 4. The Bile of Race: White Women's Travel Writing on the Philippine-American War; Conclusion. Blood and Bones: The Romance of Counterinsurgency; Notes; Works Cited; Index Summary "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 good will 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 13, 2016) Subject Imperialism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Visual communication -- Political aspects -- United States -- History Human body -- Political aspects -- United States -- History Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History Sex -- Political aspects -- United States -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia. Colonization -- Social aspects Human body -- Political aspects Imperialism -- Social aspects International relations Racism -- Political aspects Sex -- Political aspects Social aspects Visual communication -- Political aspects SUBJECT Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902 -- Social aspects Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902 -- Sources Philippines -- Colonization -- Social aspects -- History Philippines -- Relations -- United States United States -- Relations -- Philippines Subject Philippines United States Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book LC no. 2016030542 ISBN 9780472121755 0472121758

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