00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613034190 Buklod 20190613151652.0 m go j ta 160913s2016 miua rb s001 0|eng d 9789715507929 (paperback) (iLib)UPD-00405465455 DLC DMLF rda eng DMLUC DS 682 B35 2017 Balce, Nerissa author. Body parts of empire visual abjection, Filipino images, and the American archive Nerissa S. Balce. Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University Press [2017] ©2017 xii, 223 pages illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier First published in 2016 by the University of Michigan Press. Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-218) and index. "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. 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|xHistory. Sex Political aspects United States|xHistory. 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. FI UPD DMLF DS 682 B35 2017 Book