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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
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Brody, David. "Fantasy Realized: The Philippines, Orientalism, and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century American Visual Culture," American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, January 1997.
This project demonstrates how American Orientalism developed from an idea found in a popular artistic consciousness into American colonialism in the Philippines after the Spanish- (1898) and Philippine-American Wars (1899-1902). A variety of visual sources including the decorative arts, images and maps from the mass media, spectacles celebrating military victories, and imperialist architectural plans and buildings illustrate how cultural agents deployed Orientalism to facilitate the construction of an American colonial outpost in the Philippines. This dissertation uses visual culture and critical theory to explicate turn-of-the-century American Orientalism.
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