Camilla Fojas explores a broad range of popular culture media-film,
television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and
literature-with an eye toward how the United States as an empire
imagined its own military and economic projects. Impressive in its
scope, Islands of Empire looks to Cuba, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico,
and the Philippines, asking how popular narratives about these
island outposts expressed the attitudes of the continent throughout
the twentieth century. Through deep textual readings of Bataan,
Victory at Sea, They Were Expendable, and Back to Bataan
(Philippines); No Man Is an Island and Max Havoc: Curse of the
Dragon (Guam); Cuba, Havana, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
(Cuba); Blue Hawaii, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, and Paradise, Hawaiian
Style (Hawai'i); and West Side Story, Fame, and El Cantante (Puerto
Rico), Fojas demonstrates how popular texts are inseparable from
U.S. imperialist ideology. Drawing on an impressive array of
archival evidence to provide historical context, Islands of Empire
reveals the role of popular culture in creating and maintaining
U.S. imperialism. Fojas's textual readings deftly move from
location to location, exploring each island's relationship to the
United States and its complementary role in popular culture.
Tracing each outpost's varied and even contradictory political
status, Fojas demonstrates that these works of popular culture
mirror each location's shifting alignment to the U.S. empire, from
coveted object to possession to enemy state.
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