Critical Engagements in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature : Salvaging the Ruins of Empire /
Few readers know how the U.S.-Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines inflicted torture and death with impunity on millions. Citizens became desaparesidos , to use the Latin-American term. In the Philippines, the victims were "salvaged," kidnapped and killed. This semantic change epitomizes...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Value Inquiry Book Series ;
418.
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Call Number: NA105
| Summary: | Few readers know how the U.S.-Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines inflicted torture and death with impunity on millions. Citizens became desaparesidos , to use the Latin-American term. In the Philippines, the victims were "salvaged," kidnapped and killed. This semantic change epitomizes the experience of colonized/neocolonized subjects since the bloody pacification of the islands in the 1899-1913 Filipino-American War. The usual meaning of "salvage," as rescue of selected relics from history's slaughterhouse, is restored here. In Critical Engagements in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: Salvaging the Ruins of Empire E. San Juan, Jr. reviews the dialectical process in postmodern art and symbolic expressions of the Cold War and analyzes the contradictions of re-neoliberal globalization and the retooled "salvaging" in the Duterte-Marcos' regime today. Neocolonialism and decolonization mutually inform the discussion of Filipino indigenization with the emergence of sikolohiyang Filipino -an original construction. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004751330 |