Islands of empire [electronic resource] : pop culture and U.S. power / Camilla Fojas.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780292756311
- 0292756313
- 302.23/0973 23
- P94.65.U6 F65 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Our island frontier: the Philippines, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and Cuba -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Islands of empire -- Foreign domestics: the Filipino "home front" in World War II popular culture -- Imperial grief: loss and longing in Havana before Castro -- Paradise, Hawaiian style: pop tourism and the -- State of Hawai'i -- Tropical metropolis: west side stories and colonial redemption -- The Guam doctrine: colonial limbo in the Pacific -- Afterword: Whither empire? -- The colonial complex of U.S. popular culture.
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