Things Fall Away - Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization

Informationen zum Autor Neferti X. M. Tadiar Klappentext Through the intersections of literature and history, the book explores the effect of globalization on the Phillippines beginning in the 1970s through the 1990s. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

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• Authors: Neferti Tadiar, Tadiar, Neferti Tadiar, Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Neferti Xina M Tadiar, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2009
• EAN: 9780822344315
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4431-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; John Hope Franklin Center Book; Post-Contemporary Interventions; John Hope Franklin Center Book; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)