From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States

ISBN-13: 9780367009762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 255 str.

Jr. E. San Juan

Opis

This book includes essays of the narrative of Filipino lives in the United States to provoke interrogation of the conventional wisdom and a critique of the global system of capital. It helps in constituting the Filipino community as an agent of historic change in a racist society.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Alias "Flips," "Pinoys," "Brown Monkeys ..." -- From Identity Politics to Transformative Critique -- Arming the Spirit, Writing in Times of Emergency -- Bulosan's Metamorphosis: The Return of the Alter/Native -- Resistance, Intervention, Deliverance -- Prophesying a Permanent Cultural Revolution -- Fragments from an Exile's Journal