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- Metroimperial Intimacies
- 2016
- Book
- Published by: Duke University Press
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In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román 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 U.S. heteronormative behavior the colonial government prohibited anything loosely defined as perverse, which along with popular representations of Filipinos, regulated colonial subjects and depicted them as sexually available, diseased, and degenerate.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780822374862
Related ISBN
9780822360193
MARC Record
OCLC
1103854636
Pages
305
Launched on MUSE
2019-06-24
Language
English
Open Access
Yes