Carlos Bulosan—Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States

A Critical Appraisal

AvE. San Juan, Jr.,Michael Adrian Peters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Carlos Bulosan—Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States: A Critical Appraisal is an in-depth, critical evaluation of Bulosan's major works in the context of the sociopolitical changes that configured his sensibility during the Depression, the united-front mobilization prior to World War II, and the Cold War witch-hunting of the fifties. Unprecedented for its thorough historical-materialist analysis of the symbolic dynamics of the texts, this book uses original research into the Sanora Babb papers that have never before been linked to Bulosan. Sophisticated dialectical analysis of the complex contradictions in Bulosan’s life is combined with a politico-ethical reading of U.S.-Philippines relations. San Juan takes the unorthodox view that Bulosan’s career was not an immigrant success story but instead a subversive project of an organic intellectual of a colonized nation-in-the-making. Today, Bulosan is hailed as a revolutionary Filipino writer, unparalleled in the racialized, conflicted history of the Philippines as a colony/dependency of the United States. This book follows San Juan’s pioneering 1972 study Carlos Bulosan and the Imagination of the Class Struggle.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-21
Mått:229 x 154 x 15 mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Education and Struggle
Antal sidor:134
Förlag:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN:9781433142444

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An internationally renowned cultural critic, E. San Juan, Jr., is a professorial lecturer at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He was a fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, and a Fulbright professor at Leuven University and the University of the Philippines. He authored Racism and Cultural Studies, Beyond Postcolonial Theory and U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines. He is a recipient of awards from MELUS; the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University; the Asian American Studies Association; the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University; the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio, Italy); the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas; and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Issue 26 of the e-journal KritikaKultura devotes a section to commentaries on San Juan’s creative and scholarly achievement.

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“E. San Juan is a scholar of remarkable range and varied talents remarkable for his commitment to literature and culture as vital areas of contemporary social life.”—FREDRIC JAMESON, Duke University

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Acknowledgments – Foreword – Introduction – Passages from Exile: Inventory and Critique – Parallel Lives: Ordeals of Initiation and Discovery – Dialectical Mediations: Between Crisis and Emergency – Excavating the Ruins, Foreshadowing Rebirths – Memory, Dreams, History: Divining the Homeland of Revolution – References.