TY  - BOOK
AU  - Legasto, Priscelina Patajo,
TI  - Philippine studies: have we gone beyond St. Louis? 
SN  - 9789715425919
AV  - DS 653  .P538 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Quezon City
PB  - University of the Philippines Press
KW  - Philippines
N1  - In English, with one article in Tagalog
N2  -  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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