Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913

by Victor Román Mendoza

Book Overview

In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Rom n Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies--whether expressed through friendship, love, or eroticism--threatened U.S. gender and sexuality norms. To codify...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360349
• ISBN13: 9780822360346
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"