Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index.
American tropics -- Disappearing clauses : reconstituting America in the unincorporated territories -- Moral sentences : Boy Scouts and novel encounters with empire -- Imperial romance : framing manifest destiny in the Pacific -- Reconstituting American subjects : proximate masculinities -- Reconstituting American predicates : troping the American tour d'horizon.
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In American Tropics, Allan Punzalan Isaac explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other "unincorporated" parts of the US nation that obscure the contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies. Isaac examines the American empires images of the Philippines in Hollywood films such as Blue Hawaii and novels such as Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters.
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American tropics.
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American literature-- Filipino American authors-- History and criticism.