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Monthly Archives: August 2008
BERTOLT BRECHT: The Philippine Connection
BERTOLT BRECHT’S SENORA CARRAR’S RIFLES AND ITS THIRD WORLD RESONANCE by E. SAN JUAN, Jr. –BERTOLT BRECHT, Arbeitsjournal A recent sojourn in the Philippines for a year has confirmed for me Brecht’s usefulness (his favorite epithet) in revitalizing the moribund … Continue reading
Posted in AESTHETICS, POETICS, SOCIOCRITICISM, WOMEN'S LIBERATION
Tagged Alienation-effect, Counter-hegemony
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SALUD ALGABRE & iba pang mga tula — E. SAN JUAN, Jr.
SALUD ALGABRE, BABAENG MANDIRIGMA At iba pang bagong tula E. SAN JUAN, Jr. MGA NILALAMAN 1 Salud Algabre, Babaeng Mandirigma 2 Punta Spartivento 3 Balikbayang Sinta 4 Baguhin Mo ang Iyong Buhay 5 Politika ng Kasaysayan 6 Nagtatanong ang Mga … Continue reading
Posted in AESTHETICS, POETICS, SOCIOCRITICISM
Tagged Add new tag, Filipino poetics
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POSTCOLONIAL ENGLISH IN THE PHILIPPINES
POSTCOLONIAL ENGLISH? OR NEOCOLONIAL DIS-SIMULATION? FILIPINO WRITING IN “ENGLISH” Given the rise of “englisches” in the shadow of Global/World English, is it possible to draw up a provisional account of Filipino writing in English from the orthodox formalistic and aestheticist … Continue reading
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Tagged Add new tag, English, postcolonial writing, subaltern lliterature
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APPRECIATING AMADO V. HERNANDEZ, Revolutionary Proletarian Artist
AMADO V. HERNANDEZ: AN INTRODUCTION By general consensus, Amado V. Hernandez (1903-1970) is the most serviceable Filipino revolutionary artist of the twentieth-century whose poetry, fiction, and plays in Filipino (the national language of 80 million Filipinos) continue to inspire the … Continue reading
Posted in AESTHETICS, POETICS, SOCIOCRITICISM
Tagged Add new tag, Anti-imperialism, proletarian agitprop
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EMERGENCY SIGNALS FROM EXILE
EMERGENCY SIGNALS FROM A FILIPINO EXILE –E. SAN JUAN, JR. Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan. [One who does not look back to where he came from will not reach his destination.] –Ancient Tagalog proverb By … Continue reading
Posted in EXTRAPOLATIONS, SPECULATIVE PROVOCATIONS
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PRODUCING THE “FILIPINO” IN THE “BELLY OF THE BEAST”
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PRODUCING AND REPRODUCING THE “FILIPINO” I hope the Americans will understand that the present state of culture of the Filipino people shall not put up with subjugation by force as a permanent condition. The Filipinos may … Continue reading
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CARLOS BULOSAN: USE AND ABUSE OF AN ETHNIC ICON
REVISITING CARLOS BULOSAN: Internationalizing the U.S. Multiethnic Canon ….. “Go out into the world and live, Allos. I will never see you again. But remember the song of our birds in the morning, the hills of home, the sound of … Continue reading
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SPECULATIONS ON THE CONCEPT OF CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Toward Cultural Revolution (Excerpt from E. San Juan, RACISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES, Duke University Press, 2002] Times would pass, old empires would fall and new ones take their place, the relations of countries and the relations of classes had to … Continue reading
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THE PHILIPPINES MATRIX PROJECT 
FILIPINA WORKERS’ NARRATIVES: TESTIMONIES OF SUBALTERNS WHO CAN SPEAK
FILIPINA “SERVANTS” RESISTING GLOBALIZATION: Agency and Representation in Migrant Women’s Narratives Nearly ten million Filipinos, mostly women domestics, now comprise the expanding Filipino diaspora of migrant workers all over the world. This is a historical phenomenon of unprecedented proportions. How … Continue reading →