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Critical Engagements in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
Salvaging the Ruins of Empire
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 418
- Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 418
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Few readers know how the U.S.-Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines inflicted torture and death with impunity on millions. Citizens became desaparesidos, to use the Latin-American term. In the Philippines, the victims were âsalvaged,â kidnapped and killed. This semantic change epitomizes the experience of colonized/neocolonized subjects since the bloody pacification of the islands in the 1899â1913 Filipino-American War. The usual meaning of âsalvage,â as rescue of selected relics from historyâs slaughterhouse, is restored here.
In this book E. San Juan, Jr. reviews the dialectical process in postmodern art and symbolic expressions of the Cold War and analyzes the contradictions of re-neoliberal globalization and the retooled âsalvagingâ in the Duterte-Marcos regime today.
Neocolonialism and decolonization mutually inform the discussion of Filipino indigenization with the emergence of sikolohiyang Filipinoâan original construction.
In this book E. San Juan, Jr. reviews the dialectical process in postmodern art and symbolic expressions of the Cold War and analyzes the contradictions of re-neoliberal globalization and the retooled âsalvagingâ in the Duterte-Marcos regime today.
Neocolonialism and decolonization mutually inform the discussion of Filipino indigenization with the emergence of sikolohiyang Filipinoâan original construction.
E. San Juan, Jr., Ph.D. (1965), Harvard University, is Emeritus Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut. He was previously a fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, and Fulbright Professor of American Studies, KU Leuven University. He has taught at Washington State University, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York (CUNY), Bowling Green State University, and the University of the Philippines. His recent publications include The Subversive Reader (Vibal, 2023), Peirceâs Pragmaticism: A Radical Perspective (Lexington, 2022), and Recognizing Apolinario Mabini (University of the Philippines Press, 2024).
This book is of interest to students in the field of Philippine studies, Asian-American studies, postcolonial studies, ethnic and racial studies as well as to researchers on globalization, Cold War, postmodern aesthetics, critical theory, and art studies. This book is also of interest to government officials in the Philippines, and elsewhere, interested in the Filipino diaspora as well as to lay readers interested in modern and postmodern art, cultural studies, semiotics, linguistics, and art criticism.
Relevant subject areas include: U.S. history (19th and 20th century), Philippine history and politics, linguistics, art criticism, literary theory, migration and diaspora studies.
Relevant subject areas include: U.S. history (19th and 20th century), Philippine history and politics, linguistics, art criticism, literary theory, migration and diaspora studies.