"<i>Postcolonial Configurations</i> sets out to unmake dominant perceptions of Filipino America and makes an invaluable theoretical contribution toward that goal. . . . Diaz’s incisive work will be invaluable to scholars working on the Marcos regime and its political, social, and aesthetic legacies." - Vincent Pacheco (Southeast Asian Studies)
In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity. Diaz explores how the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and US policies during the Cold War that supported the regime defined the relationship between “Filipino” and “America” in ways that influenced the creation of a gendered and racialized Filipino American subject. By analyzing Philippine-US state programs for military operations, labor and immigration reform, and development and modernization plans, she shows how anticommunist liberalism and authoritarianism shaped the visibility and recognition of new forms of Filipino subjectivity. Tracing the rise of various social formations that emerged under the Marcos regime and US programs for liberal reform, from transnational Filipino and US culture and the immigrant returnee to the New Filipina woman and the humanitarian English teacher, Diaz positions literature, film, periodicals, and other cultural texts against official state records in ways that reconceptualize the meanings of Filipino America in the Cold War.
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ISBN
9781478019350
Publisert
2023-01-03
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Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
277
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