White Love and Other Events in Filipino History

Rafael Vicente L. Rafael

Description

In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt epic conceptions of Filipino history, Rafael treats in a condensed and concise manner clusters of historical detail and reflections that do not easily fit into a larger whole. White Love and Other Events in Filipino History is thus a view of nationalism as an unstable production, as Rafael reveals how, under what circumstances, and with what effects the concept of the nation has been produced and deployed in the Philippines.With a focus on the contradictions and ironies that suffuse Filipino history, Rafael delineates the multiple ways that colonialism has both inhabited and enabled the nationalist discourse of the present. His topics range from the colonial census of 1903-1905, in which a racialized imperial order imposed by the United States came into contact with an emergent revolutionary nationalism, to the pleasures and anxieties of nationalist identification as evinced in the rise of the Marcos regime. Other essays examine aspects of colonial domesticity through the writings of white women during the first decade of U.S. rule; the uses of photography in ethnology, war, and portraiture; the circulation of rumor during the Japanese occupation of Manila; the reproduction of a hierarchy of languages in popular culture; and the spectral presence of diasporic Filipino communities within the nation-state. A critique of both U.S. imperialism and Filipino nationalism, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History creates a sense of epistemological vertigo in the face of former attempts to comprehend and master Filipino identity.This volume should become a valuable work for those interested in Southeast Asian studies, Asian-American studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Cultural studies
• Southeast Asia
• Nationalism
• History of Asia
• Philippines

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 18 juin 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822380757
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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White Love

and Other

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History

American Encounters/Global Interactions A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contesta- tion of power, the construction and deconstruction of cultural and political borders, the fluid meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. interna- tional relations and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival historical re- search. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the representational character of all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, American Encounters strives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, challenged, and reshaped.

a me r i c a n e n c o u n t e r s / g l o b a l i n t e r a c t i o n s

A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

whi Eve t nts in e and Other love Filipino History

Vicente L. Rafael

Duke University Press

Durham & London 2000

∫2000 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Rebecca M. Giménez Typeset in Minion with Bodega display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Acknowledgements for the use of copyrighted material appear on page 287, which constitutes an extension of the copyright page.

To the memory of Bayani S. Rafael

Contents

List of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction Episodic Histories1

1.White Love Census and Melodrama in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines19

2.Colonial Domesticity Engendering Race at the Edge of Empire, 1899–191252

3.The Undead Notes on Photography in the Philippines, 1898–1920s76

4.Anticipating Nationhood Identification, Collaboration, and Rumor in Filipino Responses to Japan103

5.Patronage, Pornography, and Youth Ideology and Spectatorship during the Early Marcos Years122