After Postcolonialism

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Symbolic Trajectories of the Asian Diaspora Chapter 3 Historicizing the Space of Asian America Chapter 4 Specters of United States Imperialism Chapter 5 From Neocolonial Representations to National-Democratic Allegory Chapter 6 Displacing Borders of Misrecognition: On Jessica Hagedorn's Fictions Chapter 7 Kidlat Tahimik's Cinema of the Naive Subaltern Chapter 8 Prospects and Problems of Revolutionary Transformation Chapter 9 Afterword Chapter 10 Appendix: Writing and the Asian Diaspora

E. San Juan, Jr. directs the Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Connecticut, and also serves as co-director of the board of the Philippine Forum, New York City. Among his recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory, Racism and Cultural Studies, and Working Through the Contradictions.

With his usual hardhitting candor and penetrating insight, E. San Juan, Jr., invites readers to join him in a post-postcolonial interrogation of the Philippine 'problematique' within the context of both American imperialism studies and Asian American studies. To be sure, The Filipino in the United States is a concrete historical phenomenon, but becoming Filipino in the Diaspora continues to be a process of dialectical struggle. -- Evelyn Hu-DeHart, University of Colorado at Boulder This is a great book, full of life and passion, conviction and commitment-all built upon a bedrock of solid literary, cultural, historical, and political analysis. This will be regarded, I believe, as possibly his very best work. -- Paul Wong, University of Michigan This collection is an indispensable part of Philippine studies. Multicultural Review In one of the most thoroug, hard-hitting, perspicacious analyses on the subject, San Juan dismantels the myths surrounding US-Philippine relations and lays bare the harsh realities US imperialism has wrought on its former "showcase of democracy". Against the Current In this trenchant survey of both the historyand contemporary status of relations between the Philippines and the United States, E. San Juan...display[s] his talent for provocative analysis. Pilipinas It is critical to lay bare the reality of the Diaspora experience through the prism of those who have the skills to articulate it. San Juan gives this expression throughout with a powerful critique of Eurocentric universalism and the myths of multiculturalism. He has provided a provocative analysis of how the fashionable liberal vocabulary of transnationalism has obfuscated what in reality are modes of domination. San Juan's optic is unique, placing him alone at the cutting edge of a progressive counter attack against the orthodoxy of the academy. -- Sam Noumoff, McGill University One of the most thorough, hard-hitting, perspicaious analyses on the subject. Journal of Contemporary Asia