Body Parts of Empire
Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19902404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nerissa S Balce (corresponding author), Nerissa Balce |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 223 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Body parts of empire (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3998/mpub.8841993 |
| OpenAlex | W2587068982 |
| Open Library | OL26935910M |
| ISBN | 9780472119783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899–1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the human body, including the moving camera, stereoscopes, and more efficient print technologies for mass media. Rather than focusing on canonical American authors who wrote at the time of U.S. imperialism, this book examines abject texts—images of naked savages, corpses, clothed native elites, and uniformed American soldiers—as well as bodies of writing that document the goodwill and violence of American expansion in the Philippine colony. Contributing to the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and gender studies, the book analyzes the actual archive of the Philippine-American War and how the racialization and sexualization of the Filipino colonial native have always been part of the cultures of America and U.S. imperialism. By focusing on the Filipino native as an abject body of the American imperial imaginary, this study offers a historical materialist optic for reading the cultures of Filipino America
American literature · American studies · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Cultural imperialism · Empire · Literature · Materialism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Race (biology) · Racialization · Sociology · The Imaginary · Visual arts · Visual culture · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · 1899-1902 · American · Colonization · Human body · Imperialism · International Relations · Literary Criticism · philippine american war · Philippine American War (Philippines : 1899-1902) fast (OCoLC)fst01353980 · Philippine American War, 1899-1902 · Philippines · Political aspects · Racism · Relations · Sex · Social aspects · Sources · united states · Visual communication
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |