E. San Juan

After Postcolonialism

Remapping PhilippinesDUnited States Confrontations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space or borderland between past and present, East and West. Balancing the memory of colonial experience with an emergent nation-making dream, this innovative book asks if a meaningful future can be envisioned.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780847698615
• ISBN-10: 0847698610
• Artikelnr.: 21103250

Autorenporträt

E. San Juan, Jr. was a fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, and author of U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Symbolic Trajectories of the Asian Diaspora
Chapter 3 Historicizing the Space of Asian America
Chapter 4 Specters of United States Imperialism
Chapter 5 From Neocolonial Representations to National-Democratic Allegory
Chapter 6 Displacing Borders of Misrecognition: On Jessica Hagedorn's
Fictions
Chapter 7 Kidlat Tahimik's Cinema of the Naïve Subaltern
Chapter 8 Prospects and Problems of Revolutionary Transformation
Chapter 9 Afterword
Chapter 10 Appendix: Writing and the Asian Diaspora