Gonzalez / Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2131-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 227 Seiten

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña

Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, Gonzalez

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Archival Detritus, Fabrications, Second Takes, and Other Provocations
1. This Is Not a Love Story 1
2. Death Certificate, Partial 13
3. A General and Unruly Wards 15
4. The Flower of Cathay, Excerpts 28
5. Misapprehensions 30
6. The Farm Boy and the Unbiddable Wife 32
7. The Delicate Moonbeam 48
8. "Dimples": Innocence (Colonial Kink) 49
9. Stage Presence 67
10. Letters Lost at Sea, Imagined, Excerpts 69
11. The New Filipina, Kissing 72
12. Gossip: Fiction and Nonfiction 86
13. "It Girl" Meets General 89
14. Recipe for the Douglas 93
15. The Washington Housewife, the Hollywood Hula Girl, and the Two Husbands: Reinventions 94
16. Out of Place 111
17. 1st Filipina Nurse, Geisha, Little Sergeant, Javanese Nurse, Uncredited 112
18. Lolita's Lines 127
19. Bit Parts: Racial Types, Ensemble 128
20. Caged Birds 149
21. For Future Archives, Apocrypha, and Fictions 160
22. Death Certificate, Entire 165
23. The Suicide 167
24. Last Review 170
Acknowledgments 173
Notes 177
Filmography (with Roles) 199
Bibliography 203
Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines, and coeditor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i, both also published by Duke University Press.