Filipino studies : palimpsests of nation and diaspora

Filipino studies : palimpsests of nation and diaspora / edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV and Augusto F. Espiritu.

"After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural,...

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Other Authors: Manalansan, Martin F., 1960- (Editor), Espiritu, Augusto Fauni, 1965- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Filipinos > Study and teaching.
Filipino Americans > Study and teaching.
Filipinos > Migrations > Study and teaching.
Neoliberalism > Study and teaching > Philippines.
Globalization > Social aspects > Study and teaching > Philippines.
Nationalism > Study and teaching > Philippines.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Nationalism > Study and teaching
Education
Philippines > Study and teaching.
Philippines > Colonial influence > Study and teaching.
Philippines
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Field: Dialogues, Visions, Tensions, and Aspirations
  • Part I. Where From? Where To? Filipino Studies: Fields and Agendas
  • 1. Challenges for Cultural Studies under the Rule of Global War
  • 2. Toward a Critical Filipino Studies Approach to Philippine Migration
  • 3. Oriental Enlightenment and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?
  • Part II. Colonial Layerings, Imperial Crossings
  • 4. Collaboration, Co-prosperity, and "Complete Independence": Across the Pacific (1942), across Philippine Palimpsests
  • 5. A Wondrous World of Small Places: Childhood Education, US Colonial Biopolitics, and the Global Filipino
  • 6. Ilustrado Transnationalism: Cross-Colonial Fields and Filipino Elites at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • 7. "Not Classifiable as Orientals or Caucasians or Negroes": Filipino Racial Ontology and the Stalking Presence of the "Insane Filipino Soldier"
  • Part III. Nationalist Inscriptions: Blurrings and Erasures
  • 8. Transnationalizing the History of the Chinese in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period: The Case of the Chinese Exclusion Act
  • 9. Redressive Nationalisms, Queer Victimhood, and Japanese Duress
  • 10. Decolonizing Manila-Men and St. Maló, Louisiana: A Queer Postcolonial Asian American Critique
  • Part IV. The Filipino Body in Time and Space
  • 11. Pinoy Posteriority
  • 12. The Case of Felicidad Ocampo: A Palimpsest of Transpacific Feminism
  • 13. Hair Lines: Filipino American Art and the Uses of Abstraction
  • 14. Eartha Kitt's "Waray Waray": The Filipina in Black Feminist Performance Imaginary
  • Part V. Philippine Cultures at Large: Homing in on Global Filipinos and their Discontents
  • 15. Diasporic and Liminal Subjectivities in the Age of Empire: "Beyond Biculturalism" in the Case of the Two Ongs.
  • 16. The Legacy of Undesirability: Filipino TNTs, "Irregular Migrants," and "Outlaws" in the US Cultural Imaginary
  • 17. "Home" and The Filipino Channel: Stabilizing Economic Security, Migration Patterns, and Diaspora through New Technologies
  • 18. "Come Back Home Soon": The Pleasures and Agonies of "Homeland" Visits
  • About the Contributors
  • Index.

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