Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario...
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Author: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
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Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper by Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

$83.90

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

$83.90
Author: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur's biography--a failed love affair between a venerated war hero and a young woman of Filipino and American heritage. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington, D.C. to Hollywood, where she died penniless, Gonzalez frames her not as a tragic heroine, but as someone caught within the violent histories of U.S. imperialism. In this way, Gonzalez uses Cooper's life as a means to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships. Along the way, Gonzalez fills in the archival gaps of Cooper's life with speculative fictional interludes that both unsettle the authority of "official" archives and dislodge the established one-dimensional characterizations of her. By presenting Cooper as a complex historical subject who lived at the crossroads of American colonialism in the Philippines, Gonzalez demonstrates how intimacy and love are woven into the infrastructure of empire.

Author: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/26/2021
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781478014003

About the Author
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines, and coeditor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i, both also published by Duke University Press.

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