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2008-10-12T15:59:00.005-04:00

: . New Philippine Studies Articles(Jean Baptiste Mallat de Bassilan, "Indiens Yfugaos" 1846)New articles on the Philippines and Filipinos from British and American academic journals. The articles address a range of topics including woman's suffrage, war memorials, beauty pageants, tomboys, transnational fathering, migrant photography, and deadly typhoons. Like articles from previous years, this

2008-10-07T21:47:00.002-04:00

: . Insurrectos without OvercoatsOne of the most moving passages quoted in Benedict Anderson's Under Three Flags depicts a moment of sartorial solidarity among the restive subjects of the dying Spanish Empire. The passage was taken from the memoirs of a Catalan anarchist going by the nom de guerre Federico Urales (after the Siberian Ural Mountains). Along with Jose Rizal, Isabelo de los Reyes,

2008-10-05T21:53:00.004-04:00

: . The Fainting Spice Birds of Manila, 1680From the archives of the journal Philippine Studies comes this description of the birds of Manila, circa 1680. It was written by the secretary of the Persian envoy to Siam, ibn Muhammad Ibrahim. Ibrahim had never set foot in Manila but had heard enough about it from others to piece together an account of the city as an island of marvels, an account that

2008-08-06T19:25:00.003-04:00

: . NewsThe collected works of Jose Garcia Villa have been deemed worthy of being published as a Penguin Classic. Engage in nationalist consumerism and buy yourself a copy now! It'll probably disintegrate in a few years, what with the cheap paper it's printed on (my copy of the Penguin Noli has already fallen apart), but hopefully you'll have read through the entire book by then. (via Ian Casocot

2008-07-01T18:23:00.003-04:00

: . Talababa or the Footnote in Philippine HistoryAng may tandang letra alin mang talatadimo mauatasa,t, malalim na uicàang mata,i, itingin sa dacong ibabâboong cahuluga,i, mapag uunauà.--Florante at LauraIn 1889, Jose Rizal inaugurated the writing of Philippine history as a history from below: as a series of footnotes on Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Addressing and at the

2008-06-29T22:38:00.009-04:00

: . New Philippine Studies ArticlesPublished fairly recently in British and American academic journals, the articles listed below cover a range of topics from American colonial historiography, to the Spanish colonial public sphere, to Japanese-Filipino marriages, to Armenians(!) in 18th century Manila, to the Filipino-American literary reception of Andrew Cunanan. The list is far from exhaustive:

2008-06-22T23:53:00.031-04:00

: . Summer Reading(Library of the Santo Tomás university in Manila. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios.1887. BN.)Reviews of new Philippine titles have always been hard to come by. Philippine newspapers seldom review local publications and, as far as I know, rarely employ in-house book reviewers. Philippine academic journals, like their overseas counterparts, publish their reviews

2008-06-19T17:15:00.005-04:00

: . Serial Wretchedness, or Edward Said and the Philippines(Aspecto Symbolico del Mundo Hispanico puntualmente arreglado al Geografico, 1761. Vicente de Memije.)Are all of these things just like The Other? From Culture and Imperialism:Page xix: "Few readers today, after Vietnam, Iran, the Philippines, Algeria, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iraq, would disagree that it is precisely the fervent innocence of

2008-06-18T22:36:00.007-04:00

: . A Katipunan Treasury(Notice to members of the Kataastaasang Kapisanan, March 15, 1896. Source: Archivo General Militar de Madrid: Caja 5677, leg.1.25)Jim Richardson, best known in Philippine Studies circles as the co-author of Roots of Dependency: Political and Economic Revolution in 19th Century Philippines and most recently, for his scathing review of Benedict Anderson's Under Three Flags:

2008-06-17T16:55:00.008-04:00

: . Gold Fever(Pair of Garuda Ornaments)This week's episode of the television newsmagazine Probe explores the "underside" of the Ayala Museum's exhibit "Gold of Ancestors: Pre-colonial Treasures in the Philippines." It traces how excavated gold artifacts found their way up the Philippine social and economic hierarchy, from the hands of provincial farmers like Berto Morales to the gleaming

2008-06-11T08:40:00.007-04:00

: . Philippine Textiles at the American Museum of Natural History, New York(American flag; 77cm. X 193cm.; Iloilo province, Panay island; piña warps and cotton and piña wefts, interlocking tapestry weave)From the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History:In 1910 the AMNH acquired an important group of Philippine textiles collected by Laura Watson Benedict...The 1,500 textiles

2008-06-10T18:36:00.008-04:00

: . A Case of Child Abuse in the Archdiocese of Manila, c. 1876-1884(Chofre y Cia, Clase de Piano, Ateneo Municipal de Manila, 1887)A few years ago, researchers seeking to place North American and European cases of church-related child abuse within a broader geographical and historical context, chanced upon a reference to a late 19th century letter in the Newberry Library's Philippine collection

2008-06-05T21:14:00.011-04:00

: . Misalignments(The Jupiter Effect by Katrina Tuvera. Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2006. 192 pages. 971-27-18199.)In the Philippines of Katrina Tuvera's brilliant debut novel, everybody is guilty, some more so than others. In the novel's depiction of life during the Marcos years, loyalists and oppositionists alike play a role in the country's ruin but in different ways. The rest have been

2008-06-04T19:46:00.005-04:00

: . Carmen Guerrero Nakpil and Juan Luna's "Parisian Life"( Parisian life; signed, inscribed and dated 'LUNA, Paris 1892'; oil on canvas; 22 x 31 in. [57 x 79 cm.])A perspective on the controversial painting from Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, the painting's previous owner. The painting was sold at auction, to the GSIS Museum, for a record HK$6,674,100/$859,924/PHP37,858,108, the highest price ever

2008-06-02T20:52:00.012-04:00

: . Damian Domingo Online(Colleccion de Trages de Manila tanto antiguos como modernos, de toda clase de yndias / dispuesta por D. Rafael Daniel Babon y dibujado p[o]r D. Damian Domingo, director la Academia de Dibujo de la R[ea]l Sociedad de Man[il]a.)Outside the Philippines, one can catch a glimpse of how19th century, soon-to-be-Filipinos clothed (or "fashioned") themselves by examining tipos

2008-06-01T21:15:00.007-04:00

: . Books on the Philippine Environment(Tarsius syrichta)The full text of the companion book/catalog for the exhibit on Vanishing Treasures of the Philippine Rainforest, held 10 years ago at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, is now available online:Published to coincide with the centennial of Philippine independence (declared on June 12, 1898), this lavishly illustrated, full-color

2006-07-05T16:32:00.000-04:00

: . Costumes of Manilla, 1841 by Justiniano AsuncionFound (I believe) in an English estate sale and now in the collection of the New York Public Library, this album of mid-19th century Philippine "tipos del país" was known only to few scholars and Filipiniana enthusiasts until it was briefly repatriated to the Philippines as part of the Multiple Originals, Original Multiples exhibit held at the

2006-07-02T03:23:00.000-04:00

: . "I am still standing, still fighting the superpowers" 10 Questions: Imelda Marcosby Nelly SindayenSince her husband, Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos, died in exile in Honolulu in 1989, Imelda Marcos has seldom been out of the news, mostly because of the Philippine government's 20-year pursuit of what it considers the Marcos family's ill-gotten gains, rumored to amount to billions.

2006-01-01T20:42:00.000-05:00

: .Book of the MonthGinto: History Wrought in Goldby Ramon N. VillegasManila: Bangko Central ng Pilipinas, 2004Hardcover; 193 p.; ill.; 32 cm.USD 90.00ISBN 9719178590Order:India -- Mary Martin Booksellers, USD 90.00, Shipping USD 8.33 (International Air Mail -- 3-4 weeks)Related Articles:Treasures from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinasby Augusto VillalonA Shining Momentby Carmen NakpilBook Info:In

2005-10-04T14:25:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the MonthThe Samahán of Papa God: Tradition and Conversion in a Tagalog Peasant Religious Movementby Robert S. LovePasig City: Anvil Publishing Inc., 2004Softcover; xxvi, 243 p.; 14 x 21.5 cm.PHP 395.00/USD 7.90-19.50ISBN 9712714228Order:Philippines -- Libros Filipinos, PHP 395.00/USD 7.90, Contact seller for shipping info.India -- Mary Martin Booksellers, USD 19.50, Shipping USD 8.33

2005-09-25T22:32:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the MonthOn the Subject of the Nation: Filipino Writings from the Margins 1981 to 2004by Caroline S. HauQuezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2004Softcover, viii, 334 pages15 x 23 cm.PHP 420.00/USD 42.00ISBN 971550471XOrder:US -- University of Hawaii Press, USD 42.00, Shipping USD 24.00 (International Air Mail -- 2-4 weeks)[Note: Judging by the obscenely high cost of

2005-09-21T04:34:00.000-04:00

: . Hacking into the New Left ReviewWell, not really. But it is possible for non-subscribers to access New Left Review articles online even though most NLR articles are labelled as being "only available to subscribers or for purchase." All you need to do is to alter the "restricted" article's URL and you'll be able to bypass the sign in/purchase page where non-subscribers are usually directed.

2005-09-16T23:35:00.000-04:00

: . Philippine Studies (Very Late Summer Edition)Old and new articles and book reviews from English-language academic journals, obscure and familiar. Topics range from American-era cigar makers to present day sea-farers; colonial medicine and post-independence cinematic representations; export crops during the war with the Japanese and legal proceedings during the war with the Americans; the

2005-09-16T21:55:00.000-04:00

: . Julia Child, WWII, and the Philippines:From Hudgins, Sharon. "A Conversation with Julia Child, Spring 1984." Gastronomica 5.3 (Summer 2005): 105.It’s interesting to me that we were so ill prepared [for the war]. I’ve just been reading William Manchester’s life of General MacArthur [American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964]. In the Philippines we had nothing. Of course we thought these

2005-08-16T23:42:00.000-04:00

: . Philippine Studies (Summer Edition)Articles on Filipinos and the Philippines published within the past few months in English-language academic journals. Those interested in reading the articles on the list but are unable to gain access to them may email me for assistance:Philippine Wars and the Politics of Memoryby Reynaldo C. Iletopositions: east asia cultures critique 13.1 (Spring 2005):

2005-08-03T04:37:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the MonthAlbum: Islas Filipinas, 1663-1888by Jose Maria A. Cariño and Sonia Pinto NerMakati City, Philippines: Ars Mundi, Philippinae, 2004Hardcover, 295 pagesPHP 4,500.00/USD 80-450ISBN 971925811XOrder:US -- Philippine American Literary House, USD 450.00, Shipping UD 5.95+ (Domestic -- USPS[?] -- 7-10[?] days)Also inquire at Philippine Expressions BookshopIndia -- Mary Martin

2005-07-12T21:22:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the MonthPower + Faith + Image: Philippine Art in Ivory from the 16th to the 19th Centuryby Regalado Trota Jose and Ramon N. VillegasMakati City, Philippines: Ayala Museum, 2004Hardcover, 303 pagesPHP 4,725.00-5,670.00/USD 86.00-102.00ISBN 9718551417Order:US -- Howard Karno Books, USD 86.00, Shipping USD 8.00-11.00 (Domestic -- USPS Priority, UPS -- 2+ days)India -- Mary Martin

2005-06-14T23:53:00.000-04:00

: . More Images from Filipinas 1847How the inhabitants of lowland Christian Philippines dressed, danced, spoke, sang, played, kissed, and mourned and buried their dead in 1847. From an album of watercolors by letras y figuras artist Jose Honorato Lozano, about whom very little is known, not even the date of his birth and of his death. The album was sold to the Biblioteca Nacional de España in the

2005-06-13T20:29:00.000-04:00

: . Book WatchRecently published and forthcoming books on Filipinos and the Philippines from British and American presses. The range of topics are as indicative of the intellectual preoccupations of Philippine studies scholars as of the neverending afflictions suffered by, as well as the resilience of, the country and its people.Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered

2005-06-11T21:42:00.000-04:00

: . Philippine Studies Recent articles on Filipinos and the Philippines published in English-language academic journals, roughly categorized then arranged by latest publication date. All the articles are available online or through interlibrary loan from American universities. For those who want to read the articles in the list but are unable to gain access to them may email me for assistance.

2005-06-04T00:00:00.000-04:00

: . Why Fell the Supremo? by Nick Joaquin (continued)Death in the MorningEyewitness accounts of the Revolution disappoint because they usually give a stark resumé of the events that leaves out the details. We never know what the people were wearing, what the weather was, what the scene looked like. A fascinating exception are the unpublished memoirs of Revolutionary Veteran Castor de Jesus, first

2005-06-03T00:00:00.000-04:00

: . Why Fell the Supremo? by Nick Joaquin (continued)The Apprentice’s Explosion Rizal’s fall was the decisive moment in Bonifacio’s life. Up to that moment, we have seen the poor boy from Tondo striving to rise, and rising, until he found himself in dazzling company, side by side, in fact, with his idol, the illustrious Dr. Rizal. The fall of his idol could not but disillusion him. If so rich

2005-06-02T00:00:00.000-04:00

: . Why Fell the Supremo? by Nick Joaquin (continued)The Caldron of the SorcererThe Katipunan was of Manila, but the Revolution was of Cavite. After the cry of revolt in August, 1896, and the Battle of San Juan, the Katipunan fades away into the hills of Balara, and the Revolution emerges in Cavite. The greatest drama in our history was to have had Manila for its stage but didn’t. Its place names

2005-06-01T00:00:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the MonthA Question of Heroes by Nick JoaquinPasig City: Anvil Publishing Inc., 2005Softcover, 237 pagesPhp 595.00 US $29.75ISBN 9712715450 Order: http://www.nationalbookstore.com.ph/details.asp?sku=9712715450" title="National Bookstore">Philippines, AbroadContentsJose BurgosHow "Filipino" Was Burgos? Marcelo H. Del PilarWhence Came The Propaganda? Graciano Lopez JaenaWhat

2004-12-06T02:24:00.000-05:00

: . Book of the Month Filipinas 1847: Jose Honorato Lozano by Jose Maria A. Cariño Manila: Ars Mundi, Philippinae, 2002. Hardcover, 285 pages Php 4,300.00, US $86.00 ISBN 9719258101 Order Excerpt:Food Stall Aside from the different kinds of food sold in the streets by the Chinese which we have described, aside from the buyo [betel nut] stalls and those in which the natives sell puto [rice

2004-12-05T01:09:00.000-05:00

: . The Newcomer and the Oldtimer by José Montero y Vidal (continued) Read Parts I, II, III, IV, V and VI.VII Cagayan and Isabela, provinces situated in the north of Luzon, have the most important tobacco plantations in the Philippines. The tobacco they produce when well-cultivated could compete with that from the Vuelta Abajo of Cuba. All the inhabitants of the two provinces are dedicated to

2004-11-30T19:12:00.000-05:00

: . The Filipina, Past and Present Articles on Filipino women recently published in British and American academic journals: If Women Are the Best Men in the Philippines, Why Are They Invisible in History? by Albina Peczon Fernandez Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Special Issue 2 (2004): 3-15 The Women of Ilocos in the Revolutionary Era by Digna Balangue Apilado Atlantis: A Women's

2004-11-19T16:04:00.000-05:00

: . Meet Me in St. Louis In celebration of 100th anniversary of the 1904 World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition) the St. Louis Public Library has created a virtual exhibit featuring 1,200 images from the fair, including more than a hundred images related to one of the fair's most popular attractions, the Philippine Reservation. Unfortunately, the site can be confusing to navigate and the

2004-11-17T01:03:00.000-05:00

: . The Newcomer and the Old Timer by José Montero y Vidal (continued) IV In the same inn where Fonseca stayed was a soldier, surnamed Gómez, whom he befriended. Together they often went around the city and its suburbs, his friend serving as his tour guide. One afternoon, as they were taking a stroll, Gomez said to this companion: "Tonight, pleasure awaits us." "Why?" "Because it is the

2004-11-13T22:57:00.000-05:00

: . The Newcomer and the Oldtimer by José Montero y Vidal (continued) III The earthquake lasted some forty seconds and stopped without causing any damage because, though strong, it had made the house swing like a pendulum. After everybody had calmed down, Alvaredo, who saw Fonseca laughing, said, "You, young man, have no idea what earthquakes are like, nor do you know their dreadful

2004-11-12T16:26:00.000-05:00

: . The Newcomer and the Oldtimer by José Montero y Vidal (continued) II At seven o'clock the following morning, Don Genaro Fonseca entered the house of Don Joaquín Alvaredo. He did not notice the latter, who said, "We have been waiting for you. Breakfast is ready." They entered the dining room, where the family and other persons were introduced to him. "This is my wife, that is my daughter

2004-11-08T01:55:00.000-05:00

: . Book of the Month Cuentos Filipinos by José Montero y Vidal translated from the original Spanish by Renán S. Prado, Evelyn C. Soriano, Heide V. Aquino, and Shirley R. Torres edited by Renán S. Prado and Lourdes C. Brillantes Quezon City: Department of Modern Languages, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University, 2004 Paperback, xvii, 277 pages $16.95 ISBN 9719229659 Order Related

2004-10-31T01:12:00.000-05:00

: . Recuerdos de Patay Photographs of the Filipino American War dead from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; the Special Collections Library, University of Michigan; the US Library of Congress; and the US National Archives: "Dead insurgents killed in one rice paddy when attempting to escape from a trench defending the railroad bridge south of Polo. Near

2004-10-25T23:49:00.000-04:00

: . Philippine Matters "New" Philippine Studies materials online Unrestricted access: Foreignness and Vengeance: On Rizal's "El Filibusterismo" by Vicente Rafael * The Good Imperialists? American Military Presence in the Southern Philippines in Historical Perspective by Patricio N. Abinales American Colonial Empire: The Limit of Power's Reach by Julian Go Items and Issues 4, 4 (Winter

2004-10-17T23:13:00.000-04:00

: . More Images from The Forbidden Book:Buy this book. If you have the means, buy two copies -- one for yourself and another for your local library.FILIPINO SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE TRENCHES.Stereoview #146 by Theo. Brinkmier, circa 1899"WHO IS TO BLAME? AGUINALDO TO THE ANTIS: 'Allow me to thank you for the very cordial support and encouragement you have given me.'"Tribune (Minneapolis), also

2004-10-01T23:51:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the Month The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons by Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, and Helen ToribioSan Francisco: T'boli Publishing and Distribution, 2004Hardcover $65.00 (limited edition)/ Softcover $24.95, 176 pagesISBN 1887764615Order FormAboutA Chicago Chronicle cartoon

2004-09-01T15:31:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the Month Ilustrado Politics: Filipino Elite Responses to American Rule, 1898-1908 by Michael Cullinane Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2003 Paperback, 480 pages ISBN 9715504391 Php 495.00, US $9.90-22.95 The early political careers of Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmeña are brought to light in the context of the changing colonial society by Michael Cullinane in

2004-08-01T04:14:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the Month History and Culture, Language and Literature: Selected Essays of Teodoro A. Agoncillo edited by Bernardita Reyes Churchill Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2003 Paperback, 424 pages ISBN 9715062204 Php 525.00, US $10.50-$27.95 Review: Reading Agoncillo by Jose Victor Z. Torres Order (RP, US) Table of Contents Excerpt: Philippine Historiography in

2004-07-12T03:46:00.000-04:00

: . Andres Bonifacio, Action Figure How can you transform a Nazi toy soldier into a Filipino national hero? To perform such a daring act of postcolonial appropriation, according to this site dealing quite literally with "The Making of Andres Bonifacio," you'll need the following: an X-acto knife, putty, wire, toothpicks, paint, and a print of a Carlos "Botong" Francisco mural showing Bonifacio

2004-07-01T05:20:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the Month Consuming Passions: Philippine Collectibles edited by Jaime C. Laya Pasig City: Anvil Publishing Inc., 2003 Hardcover, 392 pages ISBN 9712714004 Php 1,200.00, US $24.00-$60.00 Reviews: The Passion of Collecting by Ophelia A. Dimalanta Collectorama by Eric S. Caruncho Order (RP, US) Table of Contents Excerpt: The "Imeldific" Collector by Jaime C. Laya Related Books:

2004-06-17T01:33:00.000-04:00

: . All Together Now, Part I The Star-Spangled Banner, according to one feisty informant in John Langston Gwaltney's classic Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America, is nothing more than a "warmed-over drinking song." Far superior in her mind is the "Negro National Anthem" -- Lift Every Voice and Sing (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/music/audio/mp3/lift_every_voice.mp3" title

2004-06-10T05:30:00.000-04:00

: . Mga Tala ng aking Buhay, Part I The first installment to a forthcoming site on Andres Bonifacio and the controversy unleashed by Glenn Anthony May's Inventing a Hero: The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio: the first English translation of Gregoria de Jesus' Mga tala ng aking buhay. I have formatted it in such a way that students could easily cite the actual 1930 Philippine

2004-06-01T05:15:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the Month Culture and History by Nick Joaquin Anvil Publishing, 2004 Paperback, 411 pages ISBN 9712713008 Php 550.00, US $11.00-$35.00 Review: Nick Joaquin's Version by Bambi L. Harper Order (RP, US) Excerpt: Apocalypse and Revolution

2004-05-03T21:58:00.000-04:00

: . The Violence of Representation Fernando Botero:This is a Colombia that is more violent, more real. This is the fact that we cannot ignore...[T]his is a hope of mine that it will be a testimonial to a terrible moment, a time of insanity in this country...They are works that will hang in a museum, so people can see their history...I have no intention of earning money exploiting Colombia's

2004-05-01T04:08:00.000-04:00

: . Book of the Month Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora by Martin F. Manalansan IV Duke UP, 2003 Paperback, 240 pages ISBN: 0-8223-3217-5 $21.95 Winner of the 2003 Ruth Benedict Prize of the The Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

2004-04-29T06:46:00.000-04:00

: . An Elegy in Three Scenes Nick Joaquin, 1917-2004 I.To feel that driving urge, that imperious necessity to write poetry, a poet needs an audience; he must be conscious of an audience -- not only of a present audience but of a permanent one, an eternal one, an audience of all the succeeding generations. He must feel that his poems will generate new poets. Well, poetry withered away for the

2004-04-21T01:57:00.000-04:00

: . Filipinas, Puerta de Oriente. De Legazpi a Malaspina If you missed the recent Legazpi exhibit in Manila, you can view the wonderful virtual exhibit (every single artifact!), with accompanying documentary, here. You can also download the complete exhibition catalogue here for free, a great deal as the print catalogue costs a whopping 54.50 euros. Everything from the voice-over narration to

2004-04-14T23:59:00.000-04:00

: . Word Made Flesh, Part II I cannot list all my benefactors, but there are two names I cannot allow myself to omit: Brahms and Schopenhauer. Frequently, I also repaired to poetry; to those names, then, I would add another colossal Germanic name: William Shakespeare....I wish anyone who is held in awe and wonder, quivering with tenderness and gratitude, transfixed by some passage in the work of

2004-04-08T04:46:00.000-04:00

: . Word Made Flesh, Part I The word was made flesh so that He might be a man among men, so that men might bind Him to the Cross, and be redeemed by Him. He was born from the womb of a woman from the chosen people not simply that He might teach the gospel of Love but also that He might undergo that martyrdom. It was needful that all be unforgettable. The death of a man by sword or hemlock was

2004-04-07T01:14:00.000-04:00

: . Critical Conditions: Although the Kritika Kultura site has not yet been fully updated, impatient readers can now download the pdf version of the e-journal's March 2004 issue. Two must-read essays: Baroque Modernity and the Colonial World: Aesthetics and Catastrophe in Nick Joaquin's A Portrait of the the Artist as Filipino by John D. Blanco Challenges for Cultural Studies Under the Rule of

2004-04-02T00:05:00.000-05:00

: . The Travel Diaries of Jose Rizal Now on livejournal. CALAMBA TO BARCELONA -- 1 MAY to 16 JUNE 1882 Calamba, 1 May -- Monday1 My brother woke me up at five o'clock in the morning to get ready for the trip. I rose up mechanically and arranged what I had to take with me. My brother gave me 356 pesos which I should take with me. I asked my servant to call a vehicle to conduct me to Biñan.

2004-04-01T21:54:00.000-05:00

: . Book of the Month The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives by Julian Go and Anne L. Foster Duke UP, 2003 Paperback, 312 pages ISBN: 0-8223-3099-7 $21.95 Excerpt: Empires, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons: Race and Rule between the British and U.S. Empires, 1880-1910 by Paul A. Kramer See also the following essays from the special issue on State Formation in

2004-03-29T20:17:00.000-05:00

: . Solo in the New Order In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, Stephen Greenblatt brilliantly distills into 11 readable printed pages the 500 or so page long Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation by Thomas Laqueur. From Ancient times up until the Renaissance (Lacqueur's book is for the most part a Western cultural history hence the periodization), masturbation was

2004-03-23T01:45:00.000-05:00

: . One Man's Library, Manila, 1583 From Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World by Irving A. Leonard: About a quarter of the way through a volume of yellowed Inquisition papers preserved in the General Archive of the Nation at Mexico City are seven thin, brownish folios, possibly of Chinese rice paper.[

2004-03-19T16:57:00.000-05:00

: . Among the Disinherited From "Under the Philippines," a chapter from a forthcoming novel by Han Ong. In Conjunctions 40 (Spring 2003), pp. 195-207: Finally they turned a corner and came down EDSA, the American sounding (and therefore infinitely preferable) contraction for the throroughfare whose full, marvelous name--Epifanio de los Santos Avenue: epiphany of the saints--being typically

2004-03-18T11:36:00.000-05:00

: . The Imperial Archive I only stumbled into this site, in a fit of absence of mind, a few days ago although it has been around, in its present form, since January (and a version of it has been around since this past fall). More comprehensive though less user-friendly than Jim Zwick's BoondocksNet, The United States and Its Territories, 1898-1930: The Age of Imperialism is an extraordinary

2004-03-17T03:40:00.000-05:00

: . Coming Soon The Travel Diaries of Jose Rizal - A weblog of entries from the English translation of the collected "Diarios y Memorias" of Jose Rizal. Entries will be posted on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. They will be supplemented with letters that Rizal wrote to family, friends, and fellow propagandists. This project will go live this coming April. Forging a Nation - The full text of

2004-03-16T01:01:00.000-05:00

: . Imelda Marcos, Feminist, Part II From The Compassionate Society and Other Selected Speeches of Imelda Romualdez Marcos (Ed. Ileana Maramag. Manila: National Media Production Center, 1975 [1973]. 23-28.): The New Filipina* In the beginning of time when God created Adam, He gave him everything he needed. He gave him the fields of paradise to play in, the friendly animals of paradise to

2004-03-15T08:23:00.000-05:00

: . Imelda Marcos, Feminist, Part I In (dis)honor of Women's History Month. From The Compassionate Society and Other Selected Speeches of Imelda Romualdez Marcos (Ed. Ileana Maramag. Manila: National Media Production Center, 1975 [1973]. 192-197.): The Role of Women* Let me begin by saying that, like all of you, I believe in the equality of the sexes. At this conference, we can surely take

2004-03-01T00:00:00.000-05:00

: . Book of the Month Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation by Pheng Cheah Columbia UP, 2003 Paperback, 320 pages ISBN: 0-231-13019-8 $22.50 For an introduction, see Pheng Cheah, "Spectral Nationality: The Living on [sur-vie] of the Postcolonial Nation in Neocolonial Globalization," boundary 2 26, no. 2 (autumn 1999): 225-252.

2003-07-28T18:07:00.000-04:00

: . Fall Reading: Forthcoming books to add to your wish lists: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri September Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages by Nicole Constable September Dream Jungle by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn October Love by Toni Morrison October Grounds for Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson edited by Pheng Cheah and

2003-07-27T23:21:00.000-04:00

: . The Gag Test: From Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Berube: Several doctors, hoping to improve the military's ability to identify homosexuals, tried to develop clinical tests for detecting men who had performed oral sex -- an act that soldiers more simply called giving a blow job -- on other men. In 1944 Dr. Nicolai Gioscia and his staff at

2003-07-26T01:13:00.000-04:00

: . Customer reviews you won't find in Amazon World: Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal this novel enchance my thoughts being a filipino. as we all know, Jose Rizal was our national hero in the Philippines, but his novel contains alot of significant deatils which entails a mysterious meaning behind all of his characters. the main purpose of his writings was to establish contact with his fellowmen

2003-07-19T23:52:00.000-04:00

: . The World and the Home: From Polly Toynbee's review of Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild: This is a book to tear at the heart and wrench with guilt many women who already feel they are juggling their lives on a knife-edge. Their own deep anxieties about their children and their high-pressured lives are all too

2003-06-28T23:33:00.000-04:00

: . Savage Inequality: From James Hamilton-Paterson's review of Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley: From the outset the Tasaday's true identity had been obscured by private motives, wishful thinking and journalistic labels...They are not a stone-age tribe, but a remnant of a much larger group which at some point during the past centuries (not millennia)

2003-05-27T05:13:00.000-04:00

: . The Pity of War: From Poetry 180: a poem a day for American high schools a program organized by the current Poet Laureate Billy Collins and sponsored by the Library of Congress: The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska After every war someone has to clean up. Things won't straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the

2003-01-20T22:26:00.000-05:00

: . Word(s) of the Day: ABSENCE/PRESENCE -- The terms absence and presence refer to two major concepts that the philosopher Jacques Derrida has emphasized in his writings. According to Derrida, Western intellectual traditions depend upon some conception of presence -- be it an originary moment, a transcendental being, or the univocal meaning of an utterance or text -- as the unifying ground from

2003-01-20T14:13:00.000-05:00

: . "I May Not Get There with You": Martin Luther King, Jr., radical revisionist: an interview with Michael Eric Dyson [Part I, Part II]: You argue that the liberal mainstream's tendency to overly focus on King's "I Have a Dream" speech has obscured the dramatic change of heart that King underwent towards the end of his life, when he became more radical, more anti-imperialist, and demanded

2002-12-19T02:35:00.000-05:00

: . The Tenth Muse: Breaks are always, and fatally, reinscribed in an old cloth that must continually, interminably be undone. -- Jacques Derrida, Positions (24) From If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson: When translating texts read from papyri, I have used a single bracket to give an impression of missing matter, so that ] or [ indicates destroyed papyrus or the

2002-12-14T04:35:00.000-05:00

: . Discrepant Visions: From The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature and Art by James Clifford (163): Several years ago, while doing archival research on the history of ethnographic photographs, I found in a file a face that stuck like "an overly insistent friend, like a too-faithful regret, like a mute wanting to ask a question." No amount of flipping through

2002-12-04T21:23:00.000-05:00

: . Brotherly Love: From Returning a Borrowed Tongue: Poems by Filipino and Filipino American Writers: Little Brown Brother by Nick Carbo I've always wanted to play the part of that puckish pubescent Filipino boy in those John Wayne Pacific-War movies. Pepe, Jose, or Juanito would be smiling, bare-chested and eager to please for most of the steamy jungle scenes. I'd be the one who would

2002-12-02T21:52:00.000-05:00

: . Freedom from Want: We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear...anywhere in the world. -- President

2002-11-27T23:57:00.000-05:00

: . Naked Truths: A collection of images -- in S, M, L, and XL versions -- exposing mostly former-Yugoslavian newsmakers for what they really are. The images are from Duplerice, a special feature of Mladina magazine, a muckraking Slovenian publication. A brief history: Mladina magazine was established in 1943, on the liberated territory of Slovenia, as a paper of the Communist Youth

2002-11-25T13:28:00.000-05:00

: . The Place of the University: From The Marketplace of Ideas by Louis Menand: A lot has changed in higher education in the last fifty years...What has not changed, though, is the delicate and somewhat paradoxical relation in which the university stands to the general culture. It is important for research and teaching to be relevant -- for the university to engage with the public culture, and

2002-11-24T07:45:00.000-05:00

: . Restless Ghosts: I've finally posted the second half of The Haunting of the Filipino Writer by Resil Mojares. For anyone who would like to cite the essay in a research paper, I've inserted notes that indicate the page numbers where sections of the online version can be found in the original printed version. An excerpt: Haunting is a form of desire. As the sign of what is amiss, a lack

2002-11-23T23:03:00.000-05:00

: . 'Mother Poet': Ruth Stone's latest book of poems, In the Next Galaxy, was named the winner of this year's National Book Award for Poetry only a few hours after I checked it out of the library, read it, and posted a few poems from it for everyone to enjoy. Here are three more poems from the same book: Rising In the government offices the rules and regulations regarding the erosion of

2002-11-22T23:09:00.000-05:00

: . Searching for Bobby Fisher: From Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame by Rene Chun: [E]ven the Fischer apologists had to throw up their hands when he took to the Philippine airwaves on September 11, 2001. In an interview broadcast this time by Bombo Radyo, a small public-radio station in Baguio City, Fischer revealed views so loathsome that it was impossible to indulge him any longer. Just

2002-11-20T13:23:00.000-05:00

: . What We Have: From In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone: In the Next Galaxy Things will be different. No one will lose their sight, their hearing, their gallbladder. It will be all Catskills with brand new wrap-around verandas. The idea of Hitler will not have vibrated yet. While back here, they are still cleaning out pockets of wrinkled Nazis hiding in Argentina. But in the next galaxy,

2002-11-18T20:36:00.000-05:00

: . To the vanquished belong the spoils: Perhaps my biggest frustration about this school--and I suspect this is true of similar colleges--is the way conservative viewpoints are presented as marginalized and suppressed... I completely agree with Athena. Conservatives have really mastered the rituals of what they themselves (and their sympathizers) have derisively described as "the culture of

2002-11-18T20:20:00.000-05:00

: . "Sodomy" and "Sinophobia" in Early Spanish Philippines: This might be an old discussion in Philippine historiography but I've never come across any references to it until recently -- and from a canonical text no less. (I'm a more careless reader than I thought.) I never knew that "anti-Chinese" sentiment was ever articulated in "homophobic" terms.* Of course, many postcolonial states to

2002-11-17T05:52:00.000-05:00

: . Playing with Words: From Jolography: Echolalia by Paolo Manalo Misunderstand the initial reaction— there is no I. Ay tell you, the mispronounced vowel goes well with the wayward Bus on its last trip: no matter How you say it, as long as you get their attention— Please, allow me to outtalk the obvious: An epol is still an apple as long

2002-11-17T05:44:00.000-05:00

: . Talk to the Hand: From Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan (597): Almost certainly there were distinctive African American gestures, most of which went unnoticed by contemporary whites. However, one body motion did register an impression. A Virginian observed that his African slave Jack “avoids looking in the Face of

2002-11-15T04:06:00.000-05:00

: . Responsibility: From Explanation and Exoneration, or What We Can Hear by Judith Butler: When President Arroyo of the Philippines on October 29th, 2001 remarked that "the best breeding ground [for terrorism] is poverty" or Arundhati Roy claims that bin Laden has been "sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid waste by America's foreign policy," something less than a strictly causal

2002-11-13T22:07:00.000-05:00

: . Bird in the Hand: From the terrible stories: lorena by lucille clifton it lay in my palm soft and trembled as a new bird and i thought about authority and how it always insisted on itself, how it was master of the man, how it measured him, never was ignored or denied and how it promised there would be sweetness if it was obeyed just like the saints do, like the angels, and i opened the

2002-11-11T10:04:00.000-05:00

: . Look Away!: A brief history of Dixie -- anthem of the Confederacy and one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite tunes. The report is part of NPR's Present at the Creation series which explores the contested origins and shifting political and social meanings of American cultural icons. Several versions of the song, including one by Elvis Presley, can be heard from the Present at the Creation site.

2002-11-11T06:40:00.000-05:00

: . Earth in the Balance: From Sound of a Tree Falling by Elizabeth Kolbert: During the past two years, the Bush Administration, with remarkable single-mindedness, has set about undoing more than thirty years of work to protect the nation's air, water, and shrinking wilderness. Highlights of the Administration's record, which read like a "Wish you were here" card to regulated industries, include

2002-11-09T08:04:00.000-05:00

: . Worlds without End: From The Solitude of Latin America by Gabriel García Márquez (1982): Latin America neither wants, nor has any reason, to be a pawn without a will of its own; nor is it merely wishful thinking that its quest for independence and originality should become a Western aspiration. However, the navigational advances that have narrowed such distances between our Americas and

2002-11-09T06:57:00.000-05:00

: . Literary Possessions: From The Haunting of the Filipino Writer by Resil B. Mojares: Colonialism had its opportunities, gaps, and openings. We had modern universities and modern novels long before other countries in the region. We were introduced early to the possibilities of print culture. We had Jose Rizal. Yet, despite the fact that these are milestones we take pride in, why are we

2002-11-06T19:17:00.000-05:00

: . Bushed!: I haven't had any sleep since I got home from class last night and saw the latest election returns. What is wrong with this country? Please indulge my incoherent ramblings for a moment. I fully agree with David Corn that there's no one to blame for this turn of events but the Democratic Party itself and its stable of sleazeballs and stuffed shirts. The Democrats should have seen

2002-11-05T02:11:00.000-05:00

: . On Loss: From Sorrow by Claribel Alegria: Searching for You I went out searching for you crossing valleys and mountains ploughing distant seas asking of the clouds and the wind your whereabouts it was all useless useless you were within me. Everything Speaks of Death Everything speaks to me of death the flower opening the bird moving across the tide the sunset Why does this