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God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2014
...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...
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Igorots and Indians: Racial Hierarchies and Conceptions of the Savage in Carlos Bulosan's Fiction of the Philippines
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 843–866.
Published: 01 December 2000
...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
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A Literary Remittance: Juan C. Laya’s His Native Soil and the Rise of Realism in the Filipino Novel in English
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 591–626.
Published: 01 September 2017
...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...
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In the “Training Center of the Skillful Servants of Mankind”: Carlos Bulosan's Professional Filipinos in an Age of Benevolent Supremacy
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 381–406.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., 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...
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A Queer Nomadology of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 815–845.
Published: 01 December 2005
... 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...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 186–189.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of artifact-based cultural studies. What 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...
View articletitled, The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America Words at Work in “Vanity Fair”: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
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for article titled, The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America Words at Work in “Vanity Fair”: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion Melville and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2016
... 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...
View articletitled, The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion Melville and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America
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Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 145–147.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in the book move toward a possible alternative world, always in the process of emerging, never quite constituting a utopian or revolutionary force. Beginning with W. E. B. Du Bois’s “The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind” (1899) and its warning about how the US annexation of the Philippines...
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Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2014
... 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...
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Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 673–699.
Published: 01 December 2007
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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...
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Index to Volume 86 (March 2013–December 2013)
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 865–886.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... “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...
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Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 539–567.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., the speaker looks at a photograph of himself nestled between aunt and mother. Glancing at this picture conjures the speaker’s memories of his experience in the liminal space of a refugee camp. Refugee camp in the Philippines. I sit, flanked by mother and aunt: my saviors. Here, they are young again...
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Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters The Tar Baby: A Global History
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., 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...
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Looking for the Real South: Regional, National, and Hemispheric Perspectives
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 649–659.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., 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...
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Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 171–173.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Rafael, focusing on histories and texts of the revolutionary and postrevolutionary contexts in the Philippines and in recent US occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pursues scenarios in which language resists the full and stable meanings that might be intended in service of or in opposition...
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“Rabid Imperialist”: Edith Wharton and the Obligations of Empire in Modern American Fiction
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 783–812.
Published: 01 December 2000
... 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...
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Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 807–831.
Published: 01 December 2002
... 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...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 401–404.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., 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...
View articletitled, Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization Mark Twain in China Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.”
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Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–civil Rights Imagination Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 396–398.
Published: 01 June 2015
... 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...
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Exporting Christian Transcendentalism, Importing Hawaiian Sugar: The Trans-Americanization of Hawai`i
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 521–552.
Published: 01 September 2000
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What a help is our Philippine war at present in teaching
[American children] geography!—William James, Talks to
Teachers on Psychology (1899...
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