Mendoza Victor Roman Mendoza

Metroimperial Intimacies (eBook, PDF)

Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913

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Produktbeschreibung

In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Roman Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies-whether expressed through friendship, love, or eroticism-threatened U.S. gender and sexuality norms. To codify U.S. heteronormative behavior, the colonial government prohibited anything loosely defined as perverse, which along with popular representations of Filipinos, regulated colonial subjects and depicted them as sexually available, diseased, and degenerate. Mendoza analyzes laws, military records, the writing of Philippine students in the United States, and popular representations of Philippine colonial subjects to show how their lives, bodies, and desires became the very battleground for the consolidation of repressive legal, economic, and political institutions and practices of the U.S. colonial state. By highlighting the importance of racial and gendered violence in maintaining control at home and abroad, Mendoza demonstrates that studies of U.S. sexuality must take into account the reach and impact of U.S. imperialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374862
• Artikelnr.: 54790997

Autorenporträt

Victor Román Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and English at the University of Michigan.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Racial-Sexual Governance and the U.S. Colonial State in the Philippines 
35
2. Unmentionable Liberties: A Racial-Sexual Differend in the U.S. Colonial
Philippines  63
3. Menacing Receptivity: Philippine Insurrectos and the Sublime Object of
Metroimperial Visual Culture  95
4. The Sultan of Sulu's Epidemic of Intimacies  131
5. Certain Peculiar Temptations: Little Brown Students and Racial-Sexual
Governance in the Metropole  167
Conclusion  203
Notes  211
Bibliography  259
Index  279