Philippine studies : have we gone beyond St. Louis? /

Philippine studies : have we gone beyond St. Louis? / Priscelina Patajo-Legasto, editor. - Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2008. - xxiii, 775 p. : ill. 26 cm.

In English, with one article in Tagalog.

American colonial masculinity in Maximo Kalaw's The Filipino Rebel and as a liberative space for new art and literary genres and the Orientalist knowledge-production on the bakla and gay identity by current Western scholars. anti-Modernismo in Illuminado Lucente's Waray satirical plays as affirmation of our "traditional" and "emergent" (because occluded) cultural practices as site for new readings of "old" texts and "new" popular forms brought into the ambit of serious scholarship bourgeois theater in English dissident art 1899-1941 in short, a Philippine Studies that has gone beyond the classic Orientalist/racist discourses that informed the St. Louis World's fair of 1904, "a crowning display of American imperial power". Postcolonial analyses of colonial/imperialist discourses and anticolonial/anti-imperialist resistance are provided by John Blanco, Bienvenido Lumbera, Jose Duke Bagulaya, Judy Celine Ick, Marivi Soliven Blanco, Priscelina Patajo-Legasto, Jeremy Chavez, Reuben Cañete, R.K. Laurel, Ruth Jordana Pison, and Jose Neil Garcia on the following topics : counter-pastoral themes in the literatures of Tagalog and Filipino hispanophonic writers nation and narration in Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo's Recuerdo the 1915 San Diego, California "Rizal Dance Hall Murder Case" and US anti-miscegenation law the 1998 Centennial Prize-winning novels the connoisseurly brotherhood of 1960-80 modernist art critics Philippine Studies : Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis? is a collection of thirty-five essays by Philippine and US-based scholars which illustrate the dynamism and complexities of the discursive field of Philippine Studies as critique of vestiges of "universalist" (Western/hegemonic) paragadigms

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