Tadiar / Jameson Things Fall Away

Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9244-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

An argument that subaltern experiences that are devalued and overlooked in progressive late-twentieth-century Philippine literature have been essential to the social and economic changes wrought by globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tadiar, Neferti X. M.

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Loosed Upon the World 1

Part I. Feminization

1. Prostituted Filipinas and the Crisis of Philippine Culture 25

2. Women Alone 59

3. Poetics of Filipina Export 103

Part II. Urbanization

4. Modern Refuse in the "City of Man" 143

5. Petty Adventures in (the Nation's) Capital 183

6. Metropolitan Debris 217

Part III. Revolution

7. Revolutionary Imagination and the Masses 265

8. Guerilla Passion and the Unfinished Cultural Revolution 299

9. The Sorrows of People 333

Notes 379

Bibliography 445

Index 469

Über Autor(innen)

Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order, winner of the Philippine National Book Award.