Empire's mistress, starring Isabel Rosario Cooper:

"Empire's Mistress centers the life of Isabel Rosario Cooper, a mixed race vaudeville and film actor from the Philippines, notorious for being Douglas MacArthur's one-time mistress. Tracking her story through absences and traces in the archive, Gonzalez explores empire on the scale of...

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1. Verfasser: Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"Empire's Mistress centers the life of Isabel Rosario Cooper, a mixed race vaudeville and film actor from the Philippines, notorious for being Douglas MacArthur's one-time mistress. Tracking her story through absences and traces in the archive, Gonzalez explores empire on the scale of the intimate. Cooper's itinerant life-from Manila, to Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles-is a rich text for understanding the mobilities and opportunities available to women like her in the first half of the twentieth century. Empire's Mistress wrests the story of Isabel Cooper away from the plot of the tragic Eurasian, while attending to the haunting legacies of race, sex, and empire that define her life, both onstage/onscreen, and off"--
Beschreibung:219 Seiten Illustrationen, Faksimiles 24 cm
ISBN:9781478014003
1478014008

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