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Article: After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippine--United States Confrontations. (The Philippines).
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippine--United States Confrontations
By E.SAN JUAN, JR.
Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. Pp. xi, 252. Appendix, Bibliography, Index.
The book, like its companion literature in the 'Pacific Formations' series edited by Arif Dirlik, is on Asia, America and Asia-America. A Filipino-American, Epifanio San Juan, Jr, highlights in this work the 'historical specificity' of the Filipino and Filipino-American or US Filipino. That the Filipino diasporic community is distinct from others in America because of a specific Filipino experience of American aggression (this is San Juan's alternative version of ...