American tropics : articulating Filipino America / Allan Punzalan Isaac.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Critical American studies series.
Main Author: Isaac, Allan Punzalan
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Critical American studies series.
Subjects:
Filipino Americans > Race identity.
United States > Race relations.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
United States > Relations > Philippines.
Philippines > Relations > United States.
Postcolonialism.
Imperialism > History.
Filipino Americans > Study and teaching.
Imperialism in literature.
American literature > Filipino American authors > History and criticism.
Physical Description:xxx, 205 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.