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"An extremely rich, original, and insightful work. Famously gifted in style and nuance, Rafael ranks among the few contemporary scholars in Asian studies whose writings merit--and reward--careful rereading. This book not only illuminates twentieth-century Philippine history with great sophistication and subtlety but also treats colonialism, nationalism, and constructions of gender and race in ways that many non-Philippine specialists are certain to find interesting and fruitful."--John T. Sidel, author of "Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines"
Sommario
Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction:
Episodic Histories 1
1. White Love:
Census and Melodrama in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines 19
2. Colonial Domesticity:
Engendering Race at the Edge of Empire, 1899-1912 52
3. The Undead:
Notes on Photography in the Philippines, 1898-1920s 76
4. Anticipating Nationhood:
Identification, Collaboration, and Rumor in Filipino Responses to Japan 103
5. Patronage, Pornography, and Youth:
Ideology and Spectatorship during the Early Marcos Years 122
6. Taglish, or the Phantom Power of the Lingua Franca 162
7. Writing History after EDSA
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8. “Your Grief is Our Gossip”:
Overseas Filipinos and Other Spectral Presences 204
Notes 229
Bibliography 265
Index 277
Info autore
Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines and Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish Rule, both also published by Duke University Press.
Riassunto
Looking at nationalism as an unstable production, this volume examines how and with what effects, the concept of nation was produced and deployed in the Philippines. It also examines colonial domesticity through the writings of white women. It is for those interested in Southeast Asian studies, Asian-American studies, and postcolonial studies.
