Reading the West/Writing the East
Studies in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Beschreibung
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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E. San Juan, Jr.
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Comparative Culture East Juan Literature Reading Studies West Writing
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«E. San Juan, Jr. is undoubtedly the leading authority on Filipino-American literary relations. His volume explores the influence of U.S. culture on Filipino intellectuals, the creative response of Filipino writers to U.S. colonial domination, and the achievement of Filipino writers like Jose Garcia Villa, Nick Joaquin, and Carlos Bulosan. San Juan deftly contextualizes literary forms and expressions within their historical and social matrix. In the growing field of multicultural studies, San Juan's contribution is quite unique, since his is the only work to focus on the role of Filipinos in the formation of a multinational literature within the United States. San Juan's volume is an immensely valuable contribution to U.S.-Filipino cultural history and comparative literature studies.» (Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University at Newark)
«San Juan's study is a 'tour de force' of an extraordinary and comprehensive nature. His transdisciplinary approach is on the frontier of a new intellectual discourse, on the cutting edge of Third World scholarship.» (Sam Noumoff, Director, Center for Developing Area Studies, McGill University)
«San Juan is one of a handful of leading scholars of Philippine literature and Philippine-American literary and cultural relations. He has consistently positioned himself as one who can comment on this relationship from the broader perspective of Third World versus superpowers. In the light of recent conflicts, his analysis is timely.» (Roger J. Bresnahan, Michigan State University)
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