Things fall away / Neferti X.M. Tadiar.

A John Hope Franklin Center book.

Originally published: [Durham, N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2009.

Subtitle on cover: Philippine historical experience and the makings of globalization.

In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipinosubaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation's writers and poets in that process. Through close readings of poems, short stories, and novels brought into conversation with scholarship in anthropology, sociology, politics, and economics, Tadiar demonstrates how the devalued experiences of the Philippines' vast subaltern populations-experiences that "fall away" from the attention of mainstream and progressive accounts of the global capitalist present-help to create the material conditions of social life that feminists, urban activists, and revolutionaries seek to transform. Reading these "fallout" experiences as vital yet overlooked forms of political agency, Tadiar offers a new and provocative analysis of the unrecognized productive forces at work in global trends such as the growth of migrant domestic labor, the emergence of postcolonial "civil society," and the "democratization" of formerly authoritarian nations. "Things Fall Away is a major theoretical statement about contemporary forms of world making. In this brilliant and poetic book, Neferti X. M. Tadiar works through the dilemmas of our time-transnational labor flows, urban disorder, lost hopes for progressive change, new hopes for self-expression-to return feminist theory to center stage in our understanding of the global political economy." -ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING, author of Friction : An Ethmography of Global Connection "The study of the Philippines, one of Europe's earliest colonies and the first of the United States, obliges the rethinking of colonial histories. In the growing body of crucial work on the Philippines, Neferti X. M. Tadiar's Things Fall Away is indispensable reading, a compelling rethinking of both postcolonial theory and transnational feminism. A richly poetic lament for the things that fall away, it dares still to descry in cast-aside affect and in occluded practices resources for the difficult labor of living otherwise." DAVID LLOYD, author of Irish Times : Temporalities of Modernity. "Things Fall Away is a remarkable achievement. It is a work of considerable scope, full of penetrating insights and urgent critiques. It brings to the surface an entire literary history that very few know about in the West : a literary history that speaks volumes about the conditions of modernity in various parts of the world."-VICENTE L> RAFAEL, author of The Promise of the Foreign : Nationalism and the technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines.