...Victor Bascara God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 . By Harris Susan K. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 257 pp. $35.00 . Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines . By Wesling Meg . New York : New York...

...Joel Slotkin Duke University Press 2000 Joel Igorots and Indians: Racial Hierarchies and Slotkin Conceptions of the Savage in Carlos Bulosan’s Fiction of the Philippines 6218...

...Paul Nadal Abstract This essay recovers a once celebrated but now forgotten Filipino novel in English, Juan Cabreros Laya’s His Native Soil ( 1941 ), which marked the emergence of realism during the Philippine Commonwealth’s slow, decade-long transition to independence from the United States...

... pathologization, the transformation of the U.S.-Philippines colonial relationship, and U.S. immigration narratives during World War II. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Cynthia In the “Training Center of the Skillful Servants Tolentino of Mankind”: Carlos Bulosan’s Professional...

... of resistance in Dogeaters is the nomad or bandit (in Tagalog, tulisan). Just as Philippine anticolonial, nationalist identity at the turn of the last century was born from the necessity of regulating bandit-like ‘‘asociaciones ilícitas so the iden- tity of the neocolonial state is today...

... Philippines, 1898–1902. By Susan K. Harris. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xii, 257 pp. $35.00. Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines. By Meg Wesling. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. xii, 236 pp. Paper, $21.00. The course of US empire traced in both...

... parts—the first focused on black reactions to the Cuban-American conflict, the latter on treatments of US imperialism in the Philippines—Gruesser shows how disparate treatments of empire abroad by African American writers were quite often overdetermined by concerns related to empire “at home.” Likewise...

... in the Philippines—makes for compelling evidence of the crucial role that American literature came to eventually play for the classrooms of the empire, and that empire played for the literature. The audience most immediately served by these books is American studies scholars looking for...

... postcolonial settings, particularly its usages, structures, forms, and circulation, as well as theories about it. Their approaches, though, are significantly different. Vicente L. Rafael, focusing on histories and texts of the revolutionary and postrevolutionary contexts in the Philippines and in recent US...

... loyalty” to support the American troops, whether at home or overseas in Cuba and the Philippines.7 Henry Louis Gates Jr. has examined how various figures of the New Negro, in addition to talking back to derogatory stereotypes, served as sites of struggle for African Americans over the...

... recourse that writers have made to alternative forms. In part I, he treats Bulosan’s and Wright’s use of the novel form and introduces the comparativist approach that he employs throughout—one that brings writers from the United States, the Philippines, and the Caribbean into dialogue. Through a...

... Girl around the World Research Group. The chapters move in a loose chronological progression. Chapter 1 inves- tigates byways and midways that crisscross primarily the United States and the Philippines from the turn of the century to the archipelago’s indepen- dence in the 1940s. Reading a...

..., raised in a world of enslaved Africans, found his way into the politics of global racialization through his early travels in the American West and encounters with the Chinese. Both then go on to show how Twain’s thinking on Asia—especially through US military interventions in the Philippines and in the...

... parallel the activities of Lawrence Waterhouse, a code breaker for the Navy in World War II, with those of his grandson Randy Waterhouse, a computer programmer setting up an informa- tion technology business in the Philippines. The juxtaposition of their stories traces the birth of the digital computer...

... Sticky Web of Medical Professionalism: Robert Her- rick’s The Web of Life and the Political Economy of Health Care at the Turn of the Century,” 583–610. Bascara, Victor. Review: Harris, God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902, 189–91. Review: Wesling, Empire’s Proxy...

... decoupling the U.S. South from the North and linking it to other geographies includ- ing Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Duck deconstructs from within the deeply ingrained and convenient binary between a “pro- gressive” North and a “benighted” South. What, she wonders, is the purpose of the...

... 237 What a help is our Philippine war at present in teaching [American children] geography!—William James, Talks to Teachers on Psychology (1899...

... by ‘‘a vast amount of, mainly anonymous, abuse and denunciation’’ in the mail, Norton went on to assail ‘‘this bastard ‘imperialism’ ’’ and ‘‘our detestable policy and proceedings in the Philippines as even more remote...

... global power. As a contract surgeon for the Union army, Cor- busier served across the United States and the Philippines. He became a keen observer of people and natural history, eventually publishing ethnographic studies of the Yavapai, the Sioux, and the Shoshoni. His memoir thus also provides an...

... politically controlling concept that defines thematics of narratives. But both ponder the same historical question: Why were we in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Africa? ‘‘Only connect both studies insist, domestic American needs and imperialist drives. Veteran scholars will recognize—perhaps with...