Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Balce, Nerissa

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

xii, 223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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"--

Subjects

• Philippines
• Imperialism > Social aspects
• Racism > Political aspects
• United States
• Human body > Political aspects
• Sex > Political aspects
• Visual communication > Political aspects
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
• Imperialism > Social aspects > United States > History
• 1899-1902
• Racism > Political aspects > United States > History
• United States > Relations > Philippines
• Philippines > Relations > United States
• Human body > Political aspects > United States > History
• Philippine American War (Philippines : 1899-1902)
• History
• Colonization > Social aspects
• Philippines > Colonization > Social aspects > History
• Social aspects
• Sex > Political aspects > United States > History
• International relations
• Visual communication > Political aspects > United States > History
• Philippines > History > Philippine American War, 1899-1902 > Social aspects
• Sources
• Philippines > History > Philippine American War, 1899-1902 > Sources

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-218) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 17-1741

ISBN

• 9780472119783 (hardback : acid-free paper)
• 0472119788 (hardback : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2016030542

OCLC

949986778

Author

Balce, Nerissa, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-218) and index.

Chronological Term

1899-1902

Research Call Number

JFE 17-1741