Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
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Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

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Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. One • This Is Not a Love Story
  4. Two • Death Certificate, Partial
  5. Three • A General and Unruly Wards
  6. Four • The Flower of Cathay, Excerpts
  7. Five • Misapprehensions
  8. Six • The Farm Boy and the Unbiddable Wife
  9. Seven • The Delicate Moonbeam
  10. Eight • “Dimples”: Innocence (Colonial Kink)
  11. Nine • Stage Presence
  12. Ten • Letters Lost at Sea, Imagined, Excerpts
  13. Eleven • The New Filipina, Kissing
  14. Twelve • Gossip: Fiction and Nonfiction
  15. Thirteen • “It Girl” Meets General
  16. Fourteen • Recipe for the Douglas
  17. Fifteen • The Washington Housewife, the Hollywood Hula Girl, and the Two Husbands: Reinventions
  18. Sixteen • Out of Place
  19. Seventeen • 1st Filipina Nurse, Geisha, Little Sergeant, Javanese Nurse, Uncredited
  20. Eighteen • Lolita’s Lines
  21. Nineteen • Bit Parts: Racial Types, Ensemble
  22. Twenty • Caged Birds
  23. Twenty-One • *For Future Archives, Apocrypha, and Fictions
  24. Twenty-Two • Death Certificate, Entire
  25. Twenty-Three • The Suicide
  26. Twenty-four • Last Review
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Notes
  29. Filmography (with Roles)
  30. Bibliography
  31. Index