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Three Stories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Frank R. Steward ,
John Gruesser  and
Gretchen Murphy
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Thwarted romances between Garrisoned American Soldiers and Young Filipinas, problems of translation in a multilingual contact zone, and the precarious masculine authority of the imperial agent irresistibly drawn to the mysterious women who surround him—these are the subjects of Frank R. Steward's short fiction about the American military occupation of the Philippines. But Steward's perspective as an African American military officer complicates efforts to interpret such familiar colonial scenarios. The stories' formal experimentation makes them a significant discovery in the archives of empire.

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PMLA , Volume 126 , Issue 3 , May 2011 , pp. 780 - 797
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2011

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