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Overseas Filipino Workers: The Emergence of an Asian-Pacific Diaspora

November 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The Philippine nation-state often gets world attention only when calamities—such as the recent typhoon Ondoy’s unprecedented flooding of metropolitan Manila, with thousands of homes destroyed and several hundreds killed, due to government neglect; or the …

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Jose Rizal Traversing the United States of America

February 27, 2009 By 5 Comments

RIZAL IN THE USA: ESCAPING THE ANGLO QUARANTINE, RE-INVENTING “LOS INDIOS BRAVOS” by E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

Rizal is both Ibarra and Elias…. Rizal himself is the spirit of contradiction, a soul that dreads the …

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Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino Poet in the “New World”

February 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

JOSE GARCIA VILLA, R.I.P.: Post-mortem and Autopsy Report on the Death and Resurrection of a Filipino Poet in the Imperial Metropole (Lecture given on 7 Jan 2009, at Ateneo University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines)…

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Filipinos Writing in English / Through English: Reconaissance and Revaluation

December 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Given the rise of “englisches” in the shadow of Global/World English, is it possible to draw up a provisional account of Filipino writing in English from the orthodox formalistic and aestheticist point-of-view without self-incrimination? It …

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Returning from the Diaspora, Re-discovering the Homeland

December 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment

I am pleased and honored to congratulate the alumni of the Philippine Studies Program at this time when so many events here and in the Philippines—disasters, crises, emergencies–are forcing us to think what we should …

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