With the emergence of revolutionary nationalism in the Philippines in the last two decades, the fate of liberal elite democracy introduced by the United States, its former colonial master, hangs in the balance. This extraordinary achievement in comparative cultural studies maps the genealogy of this crisis. It addresses the ethics and politics of ideas and languages migrating to and from metropolis to periphery. Mediated through a historical critique of United States-Philippines literary transactions, this groundbreaking work endeavors to articulate a Third World perspective on the impact of Eurocentric power on a unique indigenous tradition of resistance. It offers a critique of hegemonic ideology and its symbolic exchanges with the praxis of oppositional texts. What results is the emancipatory project of Philippine writing - a popular-democratic vision of national liberation.
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978-0-8204-1841-4 (9780820418414)
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The Author: E. San Juan, Jr. is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He received his graduate degrees from the University of the Philippines and Harvard University. Dr. San Juan was 1987-88 Fulbright lecturer in Criticism and American Literature in the Philippines. He has also taught at the University of California and Brooklyn College, City University of New York. His recent books include Only By Struggle, From People to Nation: Essays in Cultural Politics and Writing and National Liberation. His study, Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States, will appear in 1992. His voluminous writings have been translated into Russian, Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages.
