Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora

Published by New York University Press 2016

Filipino Studies

Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora

Edited by: Martin F. Manalansan and Augusto Espiritu

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479829415.001.0001

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After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this volume examines not only the past and present position of the Philippines and its people, but also advances new frameworks for re-conceptualizing this growing field.

Written by a prestigious lineup of international scholars grappling with the legacies of colonialism and imperial power, the essays examine both the genealogy of the Philippines’ hyphenated identity as well as the future trajectory of the field. Hailing from multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors revisit and contest traditional renditions of Philippine colonial histories, from racial formations and the Japanese occupation to the Cold War and “independence” from the United States. Whether addressing the contested memories of World War II, the “voyage” of Filipino men and women into the U.S. metropole, or migrant labor and the notion of home, the assembled essays tease out the links between the past and present, with a hopeful longing for various futures. Filipino Studies makes bold declarations about the productive frameworks that open up new archives and innovative landscapes of knowledge for Filipino and Filipino American Studies.

Author information

Manalansan Martin F. :

Martin F. Manalansan IV is Associate Professor of anthropology and Asian American studies and Conrad Professorial Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (2003) and co-editor of Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (NYU, 2013).Espiritu Augusto :

Augusto F. Espiritu is Associate Professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals (2005).

Reviews

Theodore S. Gonzalves,author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora:
This exciting and crucial anthology marks a major historiographical intervention into the fields of Asian American and Filipino/American studies. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars,Filipino Studiesrepresents not only a moment of stock-taking, but also a clarion call to future scholars to take up the fields politically committed aspirations.

Edited byMartin Manalansan IV and Augusto F. Espiritu, pioneers of FilipinoX studies, it is an unapologetic introduction to the interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational,palimpsestic nature of the work many FilipinoX scholars in the Diaspora have engaged over the last two decades.

The book will primarily interest scholars and students but may also appeal to general readers with connections to the Philippines.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
The Field: Dialogues, Visions, Tensions, and Aspirations Martin F. Manalansan and Augusto F. Espiritu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Where from? Where to? Filipino Studies: Fields and Agendas
1. Challenges for Cultural Studies under the Rule of Global War Neferti Tadiar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Toward a Critical Filipino Studies Approach to Philippine Migration Robyn Magalit Rodriguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Oriental Enlightenment and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? John D. Blanco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
PART II. Colonial Layerings, Imperial Crossings
4. Collaboration, Co-prosperity, and “Complete Independence”: Across the Pacific (1942), across Philippine Palimpsests Victor Bascara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. A Wondrous World of Small Places: Childhood Education, US Colonial Biopolitics, and the Global Filipino Kimberly Alidio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
6. Ilustrado Transnationalism: Cross-Colonial Fields and Filipino Elites at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Julian Go Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
7. “Not Classifiable as Orientals or Caucasians or Negroes”: Filipino Racial Ontology and the Stalking Presence of the “Insane Filipino Soldier” Dylan Rodriguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
PART III. Nationalist Inscriptions: Blurrings and Erasures
8. Transnationalizing the History of the Chinese in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period: The Case of the Chinese Exclusion Act Richard T. Chu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9. Redressive Nationalisms, Queer Victimhood, and Japanese Duress Robert Diaz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
10. Decolonizing Manila-Men and St. Maló, Louisiana: A Queer Postcolonial Asian American Critique Kale Bantigue Fajardo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
PART IV. The Filipino Body in Time and Space
11. Pinoy Posteriority Martin Joseph Ponce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
12. The Case of Felicidad Ocampo: A Palimpsest of Transpacific Feminism Denise Cruz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
13. Hair Lines: Filipino American Art and the Uses of Abstraction Sarita Echavez See Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
14. Eartha Kitt’s “Waray Waray”: The Filipina in Black Feminist Performance Imaginary Lucy Burns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
PART V. Philippine Cultures at Large: Homing in on Global Filipinos and Their Discontents
15. Diasporic and Liminal Subjectivities in the Age of Empire: “Beyond Biculturalism” in the Case of the Two Ongs Francisco Benitez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
16. The Legacy of Undesirability: Filipino TNTs, “Irregular Migrants,” and “Outlaws” in the US Cultural Imaginary Anna Romina Guevarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
17. “Home” and The Filipino Channel: Stabilizing Economic Security, Migration Patterns, and Diaspora through New Technologies Emily Noelle Ignacio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
18. “Come Back Home Soon”: The Pleasures and Agonies of “Homeland” Visits Rick Bonus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 9 black and white illustrations

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Published: May 10, 2016
ISBN: 9781479829415