The decolonized eye : Filipino American art and performance

The decolonized eye : Filipino American art and performance / Sarita Echavez See.

From the late 1980s to the present, artists of Filipino descent in the United States have produced a challenging and creative movement. In The Decolonized Eye, Sarita Echavez See shows how these artists have engaged with the complex aftermath of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines. Focusing on artis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: See, Sarita Echavez (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Filipino American arts.
Postcolonialism and the arts > United States.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Filipino American arts
Postcolonialism and the arts
Künste
United States
USA
Filipinos.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: foreign in a domestic sense
  • Staging the sublime: An open wound: Angel Shaw and Manuel Ocampo; A queer horizon: Paul Pfeiffer's disintegrating figure studies
  • Pilipinos are punny, Freud is Filipino: Why Filipinos make pun(s) of one another: the Sikolohiya/psychology of Rex Navarrete's stand-up comedy; "He will not always say what you would have him say": loss and aural (be)longing in Nicky Paraiso's House/boy
  • Conclusion: Reanne Estrada, identity, and the politics of abstraction.

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