TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gonzaga, Elmo.
TI  - Globalization and becoming-nation: subjectivity, nationhood, and narrative in the period of global capitalism 
SN  - 9789715425612
AV  - HB 501 .G589 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Quezon City
PB  - The University of the Philippines Press
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Globalization
N2  - An intervention into contemporary debates about nationalisn and postcoloniality, this work attempts to locate the role of literary studies and the humanities in the age of globalization. It is informed by Deleuze and Guattari and Hardt and Negri, which are the critical lens through which dominant conceptions of nation, subjectivity, resistance, and analysis are interrogated. Through the book's analysis, subject  and collective become sites in which multiple flows and forces interact and  conflict, processes that are made legible in texts. Two acclaimed Filipino novels in English, Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters and Charlson Ong's An Embarrasment  of Riches, are read as markers in the passage from the despotic national sovereignty  of Martial Law to the flexible capitalist sovereignty of post-EDSA. Mapped by the  trajectories of these texts, possibilities for ressistance coalesce into dynamic form  of community that has yet to be imagined, the becoming-nation
ER  -