Filipinos everywhere : displaced, transported overseas, moving on in the diaspora /
San Juan, Epifanio, -1938
Filipinos everywhere : displaced, transported overseas, moving on in the diaspora / by E. San Juan, Jr. - Quezon City : IBON Books, c2006. - xiv, 177 p. 21 cm.
E. San Juan, Jr. is director of the Philippines cultural studies center, that is based in Connecticut, U.S.A. He was recently visiting professor of literature and cultural studies at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, a fellow of the center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, and Fulbright professor of American Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He was previously visiting professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Trento, Italy, and at the Graduate School of Tamkang University, Taiwan. San Juan received his graduate degrees in English & Comparative Literature from Harvard University and taught at various universities in the Philippines and the U.S. He received a Centennial Award for Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. His works include Racism and Cultural Studies, Working though the contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice, Subversions of Desire, History and Form and Alay sa Paglikha ng Bukang-Liwayway. About the Book This book is a compilation of his most recent articles on Filipino migrants, their plight and untold misery under the age of so-called globalization, Using the right tools of sociological analysis, the book is a dialectical discourse on imperialism and migration, colonial history and identity, the myths of assimilation, narratives of transmigrancy, and many more- all giving 'diaspora' and 'homecoming' a whole new meaning.
9789710325955
JV 8685 / .Sa58 2006
Filipinos everywhere : displaced, transported overseas, moving on in the diaspora / by E. San Juan, Jr. - Quezon City : IBON Books, c2006. - xiv, 177 p. 21 cm.
E. San Juan, Jr. is director of the Philippines cultural studies center, that is based in Connecticut, U.S.A. He was recently visiting professor of literature and cultural studies at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, a fellow of the center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, and Fulbright professor of American Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He was previously visiting professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Trento, Italy, and at the Graduate School of Tamkang University, Taiwan. San Juan received his graduate degrees in English & Comparative Literature from Harvard University and taught at various universities in the Philippines and the U.S. He received a Centennial Award for Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. His works include Racism and Cultural Studies, Working though the contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice, Subversions of Desire, History and Form and Alay sa Paglikha ng Bukang-Liwayway. About the Book This book is a compilation of his most recent articles on Filipino migrants, their plight and untold misery under the age of so-called globalization, Using the right tools of sociological analysis, the book is a dialectical discourse on imperialism and migration, colonial history and identity, the myths of assimilation, narratives of transmigrancy, and many more- all giving 'diaspora' and 'homecoming' a whole new meaning.
9789710325955
JV 8685 / .Sa58 2006
