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Book SynopsisAn argument that subaltern experiences that are devalued and overlooked in progressive late-twentieth-century Philippine literature have been essential to the social and economic changes wrought by globalization.
Trade Review“
Things Fall Away is a major theoretical statement about contemporary forms of world making. In this brilliant and poetic book, Neferti Tadiar works through the dilemmas of our time—transnational labor flows, urban disorder, lost hopes for progressive change, new hopes for self-expression—to return feminist theory to center stage in our understanding of the global political economy.”—
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection“
Things Fall Away is a remarkable achievement. It is a work of considerable scope, full of penetrating insights and urgent critiques. It brings to the surface an entire literary history that very few know about in the West: a literary history that speaks volumes about the conditions of modernity in various parts of the world.”—
Vicente L. Rafael, author of
The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines“The study of the Philippines, one of Europe’s earliest and the US’s first colonies, obliges the rethinking of colonial histories. In the growing body of crucial work on the Philippines, Neferti X. M. Tadiar’s
Things Fall Away is indispensable reading, a compelling rethinking of both postcolonial theory and transnational feminism. A richly poetic lament for the things that fall away, it dares still to descry in cast-aside affect and in occluded practices resources for the difficult labor of living otherwise.”—
David Lloyd, author of
Irish Times: Temporalities of ModernityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: Loosed Upon the World 1
Part I. Feminization
1. Prostituted Filipinas and the Crisis of Philippine Culture 25
2. Women Alone 59
3. Poetics of Filipina Export 103
Part II. Urbanization
4. Modern Refuse in the "City of Man" 143
5. Petty Adventures in (the Nation's) Capital 183
6. Metropolitan Debris 217
Part III. Revolution
7. Revolutionary Imagination and the Masses 265
8. Guerilla Passion and the Unfinished Cultural Revolution 299
9. The Sorrows of People 333
Notes 379
Bibliography 445
Index 469
