Legitimizing Empire - 9780252039256

Legitimizing EmpireFilipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique\nAuthor(s): Faye Caronan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252039256, 978-0252039256\nSynopsis\nWhen the United States acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico, it reconciled its status as an empire with its anticolonial roots by claiming that it would altruistically establish democratic institutions in its new colonies. Ever since, Filipino and Puerto Rican artists have challenged promises of benevolent assimilation and portray [url] imperialism as both self-interested and unexceptional among empires.\n Faye Caronan's examination interprets the pivotal engagement of novels, films, performance poetry, and other cultural productions as both symptoms of and resistance against American military, social, economic, and political incursions. Though the Philippines became an independent nation and Puerto Rico a [url] common.