Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis?These essays by Philippine and U.S.-based scholars illustrate the dynamism and complexities of the discursive field of Philippine studies as a critique of vestiges of "universalist" (Western/hegemonic) paradigms; as an affirmation of "traditional" and "emergent" cultural practices; as a site for new readings of "old" texts and "new" popular forms brought into the ambit of serious scholarship; and as a liberative space for new art and literary genres. |
Contents
The Evolution of Bayan | 30 |
Mexican Philippine Relations in Traditional Folk Theater | 55 |
The Pastoral Theme in Colonial Politics and Literature | 68 |
Modes of Filipino Resistance | 88 |
Shakespeare and | 113 |
American Colonial Masculinity and the | 134 |
The Case of Lina Flor | 144 |
Philippine Bourgeois Theater | 163 |
Carlo Vergaras Zsazsa Zaturnnah and the Tradition of 427 Subversion in Philippine Komiks | 427 |
Changing | 444 |
Performativity the Bakla and the Orientalizing Gaze | 455 |
A Nation Searching for a Language Finds a Language | 475 |
Our Body Poetic | 481 |
The Rizal Dance Hall Murder | 503 |
A Study of MaYi Theatre Companys | 514 |
Invisible Stragglers | 537 |
Philippine Film during the Marcos Era 227 Joel David | 244 |
The Three Centennial | 265 |
Apparently Cubism | 299 |
The reconstruction of social space in Conchitina Cruzs | 316 |
New Tales for Old | 335 |
The Use of Fantasy in the | 363 |
Of Strongmen and the State | 391 |
Messianic Politics in Contemporary | 404 |
Flagging the Nation in Cristina Pantoja Hidalgos Recuerdo | 568 |
Memory and SelfRepresentation in | 600 |
Southeast Asian Diaspora Writers in Australia | 620 |
Another World is Possible Cultural Studies and | 651 |
Abjection in Philippine Colonial and | 665 |
Filipinos Are Punny | 683 |
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