Transpacific femininities : the making of the modern Filipina /

Cruz, Denise, 1975-

Transpacific femininities : the making of the modern Filipina / Denise Cruz. - Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012. - xii, 295 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared in American Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue I, March 2011, pages1-32."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-281) and index.

Cartographies of the transpacific Filipina -- Nationalism, modernity, and feminism's haunted intersections -- Plotting a transpacific Filipina's destiny : romances of elite exceptionalism -- New order practicality and guerrilla domesticity : the Pacific war's Filipina -- "Pointing to the heart" : transpacific Filipinas and the question of Cold War Philippine-U.S. relations.

9780822353003 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822353164 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Philippine literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
Feminist literature--Philippines.
Women and literature--Philippines.

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