Description
Book SynopsisColonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More specifically, it explores American empire in the Philippines and its ethnic and racial dimensions in the United States through a close reading of the texts and social practices of five pioneering, trans-Pacific Filipino American writers of the colonial era: the diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, the poet Jose Garcia Villa, fiction writers N. V. M. Gonzalez and Bienvenido N. Santos, and the celebrated Asian American worker-writer Carlos Bulosan.
In this first transnational intellectual history of an Asian American group, Espiritu shows that an exploration of those at the margins of the nation, who feel at home neither in the Philippines nor in the United States, raises profound questions about citizenship and national belonging. This bea
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"The book should be essential reading for scholars studying the intersection of Philippine history and the Asian American diaspora in the United States." * Jody Blanco American Historical Review *
"[Five Faces of Exile] has much to interest and to provoke readers... present[ed] in refreshingly readable, dutifully documented prose. The book holds a mirror up to the complex situation of the transnational writer, and the faces it reveals are bathed in various shades of light and dark... Espiritu must be credited for making us look and learn." -- Philippine Studies
"Thoroughly researched on both sides of the Pacific...Five Faces of Exile firmly grounds its subjects in a century of colonialism, war, independence, and dictatorship." -- Journal of American History
Table of Contents
Contents Preface 000 Introduction 000 Chapter 1: "Expatriate Affirmation": Carlos P. Romulo 000 Chapter 2: Suffering and Passion: Carlos Bulosan 000 Chapter 3: The Artistic Vanguard: Jose Garcia Villa 000 Chapter 4: Nativism and Negation: N. V. M. Gonzalez 000 Chapter 5: Fidelity and Shame: Bienvenido Santos 000 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Asian American Intellectual History 000 Notes Select Bibliography 000 Index
