...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...

..., 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 Filipinos...

... 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 organized over...

... will be the history of books? We are just getting started. Matthew P. Brown, University of Iowa DOI 10.1215/00029831-2395438 God’s Arbiters: Americans and the 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...

... American literary production during the so-called postbellum/pre-Harlem period. Across the volume’s several chapters comprising its two 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...

... a different historical period, both focus on relatively underrepresented transnational literary relations. Nan Z. Da treats Sino-US literary exchanges between 1800 and 1910. Vince Schleitwiler focuses on Filipino, Filipino American, African American, and Japanese American cultural works from the Philippine...

... 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 useful approaches...

... 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 meaning of black identity...

.... “The 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...

..., the Bahamas, the Philippines, Nigeria, Oaxaca, and the Georgia Low Country. Yet, the books exhibit radically different structures. Barzilai’s Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters details the appearances of the golem in diverse forms—from theater and film, to references in propaganda and media, as well...

..., 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 nation’s embrace of regions like the South? Both criti- cal strategies—decoupling of the region from the nation...

... 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...

... of his experience in the liminal space of a refugee camp. Refugee camp in the Philippines. I sit, anked by mother and aunt: my saviors. Here, they are young again, their bodies smooth and unscarred beneath the white garments illuminating from the shack s interior. (Vuong 2010: 10) The speaker...

... 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 occupations...

... 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 back to a ragtag group of nonconformist code breakers in the 1940s. Stephenson accurately perceives...

... 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 combination of symptomatic and formalist...

... 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 Chinese Boxer Rebellion—became crucial to the evolution of a figure Lai-Henderson calls...

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