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Surrealist, experimental poems in Filipino by E. San Juan, Jr., cultural critic and public intellectual, with English translations or versions, addressing urgent social and political problems in the ongoing crisis in the Philippines and in the Filipino diaspora around the world--a sequel to previous volumes, BALIKBAYANG MAHAL: PASSAGES FROM EXILE and SUTRANG KAYUMANGGI.

Experimental, innovative, radical surrealist poetry in Filipino blasting the continuum of feudal tradition and capitalist hegemony, by E. San Juan, Jr, cultural critic, scholar and exiled intellectual from the Philippines. "Filipino" is the official name of the national language of the Philippines. Several poems include translations into English. A sequel to Balikbayang Mahal: Passages from Exile (LuLu.com).

An innovative radical interpretation of the life and works of Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, the "pride of the Malay race, " in the context of crisis in the neocolony and world revolution against imperialism at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This supplements the author's earlier book, Rizal in Our Time, Revised Edition (Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2011).

Praised by Bertrand Russell as "one of the most original minds" and "certainly the greatest American thinker ever, " Charles Sanders Peirce invented "pragmaticism." Vulgarized by William James and others, Peirce's revolutionary semiotic recognizes chance, fortuitous happenings, serendipity, in understanding lawful paradigm-shifts in history. Peirce's thought envisions a process-oriented community of inquirers engaged in confronting urgent soci...

In Part One, the author examines what is at stake in the complex relations between theory and practice in exchanges involving Paul de Man, Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci, and others. In Part Two, San Juan focuses on the materialist aesthetics of Louis Althusser and Pierre Macherey, examining their resonance in a Hemingway novel and in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. In Part Three, the author cond...

Examines the project of Filipino self-determination in the context of capitalist globalization.

A companion volume to "The Cry and the Dedication", this is a collection of Carlos Bulosan's short stories, essays, poetry, and correspondence. The pieces included here reveal how his sensibility, largely shaped by the political circumstances of the 1930s up to the 1950s, articulates the struggles and hopes for equality and justice for Filipinos.

This book offers a radical, "Third World" approach to current debates on canon revision, multiculturalism, Eurocentrism, and reforms in education and culture.

Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space or borderland between past and present, East and West. Balancing the memory of colonial experience with an emergent nation-making dream, this innovative book asks if a meaningful future can be envisioned.

Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment post-colonialism, Beyond Post-Colonial Theory posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of colour as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. In this volume, acclaimed scholar E. San Juan, Jr. questions the various clich that stereotype 'third world' cultures. The testimonies and signifying practices of Rigoberta Menchu, C.L.R. James, various 'minority' writers in the United St...

A historical critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies.

Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space or borderland between past and present, East and West. Balancing the memory of colonial experience with an emergent nation-making dream, this innovative book asks if a meaningful future can be envisioned.

Several chapters in this book address the theme of diaspora. Diasporic groups are historically defined not only by a homeland but also by a desire for eventual return. It assumes a collective identity centered on memories of common experiences, beliefs in common ancestry, together with the entire network of symbols and myths subtending this notion of belonging to a homeland." - from the Preface

This project of "balikbayan" (homecoming) unfolds through poems and graphics--in-progress spanning four decades of exile. It seeks to map one emigre's itinerary through terrains of disruption and dislocation. Written in English and in Filipino (with translations into Chinese, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian), these traces of the writer's journey strive to foreground the ordeals of deterritorialization shared by all colonized peoples-...

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In the Wake of Terror focuses on the controversies over the linkage of class exploitation and the ideology of racism, the role of nationalism in postcolonial politics, and ethnic exclusion.