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Empire′s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

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Pages: 232
Illustrations: 41 illustrations

Published: February 2021

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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Archival Detritus, Fabrications, Second Takes, and Other Provocations 1. This Is Not a Love Story 1 2. Death Certificate, Partial 13 3. A General and Unruly Wards 15 4. The Flower of Cathay, Excerpts 28 5. Misapprehensions 30 6. The Farm Boy and the Unbiddable Wife 32 7. The Delicate Moonbeam 48 8. "Dimples": Innocence (Colonial Kink) 49 9. Stage Presence 67 10. Letters Lost at Sea, Imagined, Excerpts 69 11. The New Filipina, Kissing 72 12. Gossip: Fiction and Nonfiction 86 13. "It Girl" Meets General 89 14. Recipe for the Douglas 93 15. The Washington Housewife, the Hollywood Hula Girl, and the Two Husbands: Reinventions 94 16. Out of Place 111 17. 1st Filipina Nurse, Geisha, Little Sergeant, Javanese Nurse, Uncredited 112 18. Lolita's Lines 127 19. Bit Parts: Racial Types, Ensemble 128 20. Caged Birds 149 21. For Future Archives, Apocrypha, and Fictions 160 22. Death Certificate, Entire 165 23. The Suicide 167 24. Last Review 170 Acknowledgments 173 Notes 177 Filmography (with Roles) 199 Bibliography 203 Index 215
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Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-1186-6

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“Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez crafts a gorgeous and meticulous portrait of one of the most intriguing women of the twentieth century, Isabel Rosario Cooper. Woven out of ghosts of texts and archival fractures and gaps, Empire's Mistress is a replete mystery tale, a feminist biography, a Hollywood story, an intimate study of Philippine-U.S. relations, and a masterful work of postcolonial noir. Above all, Empire's Mistress is a haunting, by which afterlives of empire address our contemporary dilemmas about how to articulate, frame, and center unspoken lives to tell history accurately. A deeply satisfying work of exhumation, Empire's Mistress makes complex history live, and I'm grateful for Gonzalez's unflinching, refractive, and always revelatory gaze on that history.” — Gina Apostol, author of Insurrecto
“Imaginatively tracing the life of Isabel Rosario Cooper in and through the elisions and silences of the archives, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez makes a significant contribution to rethinking the process of archival research when it involves marginalized subjects whose existence appears sporadically in the historical accounts of others. A compelling read.” — Vicente L. Rafael, author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
"Gonzalez’s book is part- excavation, part-celebration of Cooper, that puts the story of MacArthur and his mistress into a new context, and not necessarily in a sordid way. Gonzalez is mindful at all times that Cooper was a daughter of colonization. That is why you read this book, to see another small-scale, personal perspective of the U.S. Philippines relationship where colonial mentality is more than a massive headache." — Emil Guillermo, Philippine Inquirer
“ Empire’s Mistress is a dynamic text at the cutting edge of transdisciplinary research and will appeal to lay readers looking for a juicy noir tale and to scholars of women’s history, twentieth century US–Philippines political relations, and postcolonial and cultural studies. Gonzalez’s writing against the archival grain is a pleasure to read.” — Thea Quiray Tagle, Philippine Studies
“ Empire’s Mistress is a clever reflection of both the disjointed American imperial archive and the non-linear life Cooper had invented for herself. . . . Gonzalez not only engages in interdisciplinary analyses and methodologies to study the archive, but beautifully interweaves multiple genres—academic prose, poetry, playwriting, and art—to speculate a historical narrative that dances on the fine line between fiction and non-fiction.” — Kristin Oberiano, Western Historical Quarterly
“[Gonzalez] insists on a speculative archival reading that allows Cooper to move from being the object of the possessive to a framing that makes her a different kind of subject . . . ultimately centering and valuing the intimate knowledges formed and passed between women who experience the violence of empire.” — Rachel Yim, Women & Performance
“Gonzalez is . . . especially lively when she is highlighting her personal discovery of archival documents. . . . Her glimpses into early Manila and the colonial life of American soldiers who married Filipina women was fascinating, and the best-researched part of this tale.” — Kirby Pringle, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
“ Empire’s Mistress is a work of art—figuratively and literally—that unearths the engrossing life of Isabel Rosario Cooper. . . . It is an archetype of how archival research should be repurposed.” — Luis Zuriel P. Domingo, Sojourn
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines , and coeditor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i , both also published by Duke University Press.
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