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Filipinas everywhere : essays in criticism and cultural studies from a Filipino perspective /

Statement of responsibility: E. San Juan, Jr.
by San Juan Jr., E. (Epifanio) [author.].
Type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Critical voices (Brighton, England): Publisher: [Manila] : De La Salle University Publishing House, c2016Description: xx, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1845198662; 9789715556408 (Philippine edition).Subject(s): Philippines -- Politics and government -- 1986- | Philippines -- Civilization | Philippines -- History
Contents:
Filipinas everywhere : colonialism, neocolonial domination, and imperial terror -- Globalization and its vicissitudes -- Postcolonialism, uneven development, imperialism -- Critique and praxis: Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci -- Pragmatism and Marxism : project for a dialogue -- Saussure/Peirce : escaping from the prison house of language -- Kafka and torture -- History, ideology, utopia: on photography in late capitalism
Language/Translation Info: EnglishSummary: "In this epoch of disastrous neoliberal globalization, E. San Juan's critique seizes the crisis in neocolonial Philippines as a point of intervention. As current Philippine President Duterte's timely war on drugs and corruption rages, San Juan foregrounds the facticity that Filipinos are once more confronted with the barbaric legacy of U.S. domination, legitimized today as "civilizing" humanitarianism. This wide-ranging discourse by a Filipino radical scholar interrogates the apologetic use of postcolonial dogmas, Saussurean semiology versus Peircean semiotics, Kafka's allegory on torture, Edward Said's use of Gramsci, and the postconceptual view of photography. The author also diagnoses the symptoms of nihilistic neoliberal ideology found in media discourses on diaspora, terrorism, and globalization."
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Books, Monographs Books, Monographs Filipinas Heritage Library Main Library Holdings DS 686.614 S28 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 18605

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-169).

Filipinas everywhere : colonialism, neocolonial domination, and imperial terror -- Globalization and its vicissitudes -- Postcolonialism, uneven development, imperialism -- Critique and praxis: Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci -- Pragmatism and Marxism : project for a dialogue -- Saussure/Peirce : escaping from the prison house of language -- Kafka and torture -- History, ideology, utopia: on photography in late capitalism

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