American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America

by Allan Punzalan Isaac

Book Overview

In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing "to be everywhere and nowhere," Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the United States, symptomatic of American imperialism's invisibility to itself. In American Tropics, Isaac explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other "unincorporated" parts of the U.S. nation that obscure the contradictions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642745
• ISBN13: 9780816642748
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.1"