Martin Joseph Ponce
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814768051
- eISBN:
- 9780814768662
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814768051.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This book charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the United States, forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first ...
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This book charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the United States, forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first century. It theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process. The book considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. It elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, the book proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.Less
This book charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the United States, forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first century. It theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process. The book considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. It elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, the book proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.
Elyse Blankley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474401692
- eISBN:
- 9781474422123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401692.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Leonard Woolf circulated among Bloomsbury’s different desires because he was himself queered by his class, religion, and caste. Focusing on Woolf’s 1914 novel TheWiseVirgins and letters between him ...
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Leonard Woolf circulated among Bloomsbury’s different desires because he was himself queered by his class, religion, and caste. Focusing on Woolf’s 1914 novel TheWiseVirgins and letters between him and Lytton Strachey, Blankley shows that the two men engaged with each other’s work to tease out possible answers to the ‘problem’ and pleasures of the erotic male body and the narrative scripts permissible to it. For Strachey and Woolf, the vexing questions of desire and social disapprobation reached an interesting crisis in the years leading up to WWI. The Western mind/body split was a troubling inheritance, and they responded in surprisingly interrelated ways by interrogating the forms available to them for speaking forbidden desire and imagining new parameters of desire beyond matrimony, domesticity, and the marketplace of sexual exchange. Blankley shows that, together, the two writers helped shaped a dialectic of queer literary modernism, in complementary albeit antiphonal registers.Less
Leonard Woolf circulated among Bloomsbury’s different desires because he was himself queered by his class, religion, and caste. Focusing on Woolf’s 1914 novel TheWiseVirgins and letters between him and Lytton Strachey, Blankley shows that the two men engaged with each other’s work to tease out possible answers to the ‘problem’ and pleasures of the erotic male body and the narrative scripts permissible to it. For Strachey and Woolf, the vexing questions of desire and social disapprobation reached an interesting crisis in the years leading up to WWI. The Western mind/body split was a troubling inheritance, and they responded in surprisingly interrelated ways by interrogating the forms available to them for speaking forbidden desire and imagining new parameters of desire beyond matrimony, domesticity, and the marketplace of sexual exchange. Blankley shows that, together, the two writers helped shaped a dialectic of queer literary modernism, in complementary albeit antiphonal registers.
