Introduction to modern Pilipino literature

San Juan, E.

Twayne Publishers

As the largest contingent of Asian/Pacific Islanders in the United States today, Filipinos have been described as invisible,” forgotten,” marginal others,” and, on the whole, inconsequential. From Exile to Diaspora challenges these stereotypes. With the Philippines undergoing revolutionary transformation, the Filipino diasporaabout six million overseas contract workers” scattered around the planetis radically configuring the Filipino presence and potential for change in the U.S. Subsumed before in the category of immigrants, exiles, refugees, etc., Filipinos now claim a nationalitarian, uniquely political/ethical identity removed from panethnic racializing generalities. Filipinos in their singular diversity are reassessing their colonial past and engaging in projects of popular-democratic resistance (of which this work is one) to the transnational system of global commodification.This book examines the received textbook dogmas about the Filipino community before World War II and after. It questions the claims about Filipino assimilation and acculturation, focusing on their encounter with white supremacy” in various forms. Through analysis and interpretation of imaginative texts and other discursive practices, From Exile to Diaspora seeks to establish a new framework for charting Filipino agency within the constraints of late capitalism. It seeks to open up for laypersons and students of U.S. social history the question of racial justice and equality. San Juan hopes this book will serve as a guide to understanding the nuances of Filipino self-identification in the process of challenging the dominant polity's claim to pluralist and multicultural heterogeneity.

From Exile To Diaspora: Versions Of The Filipino Experience In The United States

Literature & Fiction

San Juan, Epifanio

United States

Westview Press

On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan (Asian American History & Cultu)

A companion volume to The Cry and the Dedication, this is the first extensive collection of Carlos Bulosan's short stories, essays, poetry, and correspondence. Bulosan's writings expound his mission to redefine the Filipino American experience and mark his growth as a writer. The pieces included here reveal how his sensibility, largely shaped by the political circumstances of the 1930s up to the 1950s, articulates the struggles and hopes for equality and justice for Filipinos. He projects a "new world order" liberated from materialist greed, bigoted nativism, racist oppression, and capitalist exploitation. As E. San Juan explains in his Introduction, Bulosan's writings "help us to understand the powerlessness and invisibility of being labeled a Filipino in post Cold War America."

Temple University Press

A collection of Carlos Bulosan's short stories, essays, poetry, and correspondence.

In this incisive and polemical book, E. San Juan, Jr., the leading authority on Philippines-U.S. literary studies, goes beyond fashionable postcolonial theory to bring to our attention the complex history of Philippines-U.S. literary interactions. In sharp contrast to other works on the subject, the author presents Filipino literary production within the context of a long and sustained tradition of anti-imperialist insurgency, and foregrounds the strong presence of oppositional writing in the Philippines. After establishing the historical context of U.S. intervention and Filipino resistance, San Juan examines the work of two very significant writers. The first, Carlos Bulosan, a journalist and union activist, became in the author's words a 'tribune' of the people. Bulosan's writings which combine critique and prophecy do not allow us to forget the atrocities inflicted on the Filipino people.The other, Jose Garcia Villa, lapsed into premature obscurity on account of the complexity of his writings about the Filipino predicament. Read through San Juan's eyes, these writers are revealed as multifaceted thinkers and activists, not stereotypical ethnic artists. San Juan goes beyond literary studies and contemporary debates about nationalism and politics to point the way to a new direction in radical transformative writing. He uncovers hidden agendas in many previous accounts of U.S.-Philippine relations, and this book exemplifies how best to combine activist scholarship with historically grounded cultural commentary.Author note: E. San Juan, Jr. is Fellow of the Center for the Humanities and Visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan University, and Director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center. He was recently chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington University, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He received the 1999 Centennial Award for Literature from the Philippines Cultural Center. His most recent books are "Beyond Postcolonial Theory", "From Exile to Diaspora", "After Postcolonialism", and "Racism and Cultural Studies".

Philippine Temptation (Asian American History & Cultu)

Presents Filipino literary production within context of a long and sustained tradition of anti-imperialist insurgency, and foregrounds the strong presence of oppositional writing in Philippines. This title goes beyond literary studies and debates about nationalism and politics to point the way to a new direction in radical transformative writing.

The Philippine Temptation: Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations (Asian American History & Cultu)

Racial Formations/Critical Transformations

Deploying the resources of critical theory, semiotics, and historical analysis, the author offers a global critique of multiculturalism, ethnicity-based social studies, orthodox Marxism, and postmodern approaches from the perspective of the struggles of people of color for representation and self-determination.

Juan, E.San

History & Criticism

Humanities Press

The essays in this volume attempt to contribute to a dialogue on theoretical practice, a discussion of concepts, paradigms, methodologies needed to elucidate and evaluate cultural production in our society. While they are concerned mainly with literary criticism and analysis (textual hermeneutics, symptomatic reading), attention has been given to the political tensions inscribed in film and music. Written over the last decade, these essays represent San Juan's responses to a whole range of popular democratic initiatives in the cultural struggle during the period that witnessed the rapid decline of Marcos' "New Society" to the brief "springtime" of ceasefire talks between the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Aquino government and finally to the return of neocolonial democracy and the reign of the vigilantes. Like his books Crisis in the Philippines, Subversions of Desire, Only by Struggle, and From People to Nation, this volume should be read in the context of the occasions when they were written, and judged in terms of the orientation they provide and the concrete mediations they afford for the collective project of constructing a Filipino nation armed for the unpredictable challenges of the 21st century.

Writing and national liberation: Essays in critical practice

University of the Philippines Press

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Introduction to modern Pilipino literature

From Exile To Diaspora: Versions Of The Filipino Experience In The United States

On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan (Asian American History & Cultu)

On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan (Asian American History & Cultu)

Philippine Temptation (Asian American History & Cultu)

The Philippine Temptation: Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations (Asian American History & Cultu)

Racial Formations/Critical Transformations

Writing and national liberation: Essays in critical practice