Islands of empire
Subtitle: pop culture and U.S. power
By: Camilla Fojas
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780292756304
Subjects: Mass media and culture; History; Popular culture; Power (Social sciences); Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Our island frontier: the Philippines, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and Cuba; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Islands of empire; title: Foreign domestics: the Filipino "home front" in World War II popular culture; title: Imperial grief: loss and longing in Havana before Castro; title: Paradise, Hawaiian style: pop tourism and the; title: State of Hawai'i; title: Tropical metropolis: west side stories and colonial redemption; title: The Guam doctrine: colonial limbo in the Pacific; title: Afterword: Whither empire?; title: The colonial complex of U.S. popular culture.