Toward Filipino self-determination : beyond transnational globalization / E. San Juan Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

San Juan, E. (Epifanio), 1938-

Series:

SUNY series in global modernity

SUNY series in Global Modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipino Americans--History.

Filipino Americans.

Filipino Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Relations--Philippines.

United States.

Philippines--Relations--United States.

Philippines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Granted formal independence in 1946, the Philippines serves as a battleground between the neoliberal project of capitalist globalization and the enduring aspiration of Filipinos for national self-determination. More than ten million Filipino workers—over one-tenth of the country's total population—work as contract workers in all parts of the world. How did this "model" colony of the United States devolve into an impoverished, war-torn neocolonial hinterland, a provider of cheap labor and raw materials for the rest of the world? In Toward Filipino Self-Determination, E. San Juan Jr. explores the historical, cultural, and political formation of the Filipino diaspora. By focusing on the work of significant Filipino intellectuals and activists, including Carlos Bulosan and Philip Vera Cruz, as well as the issues of gender and language for workers in the United States, San Juan provides a historical-materialist reading of social practices, discourses, and institutions that explain the contradictions characterizing Filipino life in both the United States and in the Philippines.

Contents:

Imperial terror in the homeland

In the belly of the beast

Subaltern silence: vernacular speech acts

Revisiting Carlos Bulosan

Emergency signals from the shipwreck

Trajectories of diaspora survivors

Tracking the exile's flight: mapping a rendezvous.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438427379

1438427379

9781441620569

1441620567

OCLC:

436226956