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Elizabeth Taylor - Icon of American Empire (Hardcover)
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Elizabeth Taylor - Icon of American Empire (Hardcover)
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In Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire, Gloria Shin contends
that the titular movie star is a model of postcolonial whiteness as
her tenure as the most beautiful woman in the world coincides with
the era of postcolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Taylor is
examined through a series of overlapping readings: as the Mistress
in a cycle of Hollywood plantation, via her extra-cinematic image
as a jet-setting wanton seductress and oriental in whiteface in the
early 1960, through her repatriation to the U.S. in the 1970s via
her marriage to and the election of her pro-military husband John
Warner to the U.S. Senate, and her evolution as a relentless AIDS
activist in the 1980s. Across these interpretative frames, Taylor
emerges as the figuration who performs the vast possibilities open
to postcolonial whites for mobility, pleasure, and political agency
while operating without the burdens of race that allows her stardom
to be symbolic of American Empire at the apex of its power.
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