Knife's edge : selected essays / Edel E. Garcellano ; [editorial and production supervision, Laura L. Samson, Ruth Pison and Nestor de Guzman].

Includes bibliographical references.

he also sutures the breach between public and private, between politics and culture, that supports the dominant social order and its violent instruments of power. -Neferti X. M. Tadiar The courage of Jose Ma. Sison in standing for a revolutionary aesthetics even behind the walls of his solitary confinement and, seemingly, against the sanctions of prevailing aesthetic tastes forms part of my continuing admiration for him. He, together with such contemporaries as E. San Juan, Emmanuel Lacaba, Edil Garcellano, and Gelacio Guillermo have persevered on the idea that it takes courage to live the literary life as it does to make a stand on political questions. It takes integrity to become a writer -Petronilo Bn. Daroy

Edel Garcellano's work included in this collection has provided some of the most powerful and brilliant analyses of contemporary Philippine politics and Culture, fields of endeavour that has resolutely insisted on linking together in the face of dominant efforts to keep them apart. Through trenchant historical contextualization and idealogical deconstruction of the literary and critical discourses now enjoying the privileges of hegemony within both academic and public spheres, Garcellano not only brings out "the logic of capital that arranges the daily habits of our bodies and minds"