{"product_id":"five-faces-of-exile-9780804751216","title":"Five Faces of Exile","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eColonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. \u003ci\u003eFive Faces of Exile\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eFive Faces of Exile\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePhilippine Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thoroughly researched on both sides of the Pacific...\u003ci\u003eFive Faces of Exile\u003c\/i\u003e firmly grounds its subjects in a century of colonialism, war, independence, and dictatorship.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Preface\t\t000  Introduction\t000  Chapter 1: \"Expatriate Affirmation\": Carlos P. Romulo\t000  Chapter 2: Suffering and Passion: Carlos Bulosan\t000  Chapter 3: The Artistic Vanguard: Jose Garcia Villa\t000  Chapter 4: Nativism and Negation: N. V. M. Gonzalez\t000  Chapter 5: Fidelity and Shame: Bienvenido Santos\t000  Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Asian American Intellectual History\t000  Notes  Select Bibliography\t000  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405561078103,"sku":"9780804751216","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804751216.jpg?v=1730492837","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/five-faces-of-exile-9780804751216","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}