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Article: Southern postcoloniality and the improbability of Filipino-American postcoloniality: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Hagedorn's Dogeaters.(Critical Essay)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
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- December 22, 2003
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IN THIS GESTURAL PAPER, I OUTLINE some of the complexities of Filipino Americans' stake in claiming U.S. postcolonial identity. Oscar Campomanes has called Filipino-American postcoloniality a "well-nigh improbable project." (1) Mobilizing a twinned critique of racial and colonial subjugation, Filipino-American studies encounters again and again its own annihilation, undercut as it is by America's imperial amnesia and by the insufficiency of immigration and assimilation paradigms. For the fate of the Philippine-American War in American history has been one of forgetting both by colonizers and the colonized. Unsurprisingly, scholarship in Filipino-American studies is ...
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Article: Works of William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! ...
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