Beauty and Brutality provides an exciting, original, and critical
encounter with this labyrinthine city's imagined and material
landscape. The authors and contributors investigate the "messy,
fleshy, recalcitrant, mercurial, and immeasurable qualities of the
city," examining its urban space and smell: how it is represented
in films, literature, music, and urban streetart; how it has
endured the politics of colonialism, U.S. imperialism,
neoliberalism, and globalization; as well as how its queer citizens
engage with digital media platforms to communicate and connect with
each other. The first volume to offer a cultural and urban studies
approach to Manila, Beauty and Brutality considers the tensions of
the Filipino diaspora as they migrate and "re-turn," as well as the
citizens' responses to the Marcos (and post-Marcos) dictatorship,
President Duterte's authoritarianism, and "Drug War." Essays also
map out of geographies of repression and resistance in the urban
war of classes, genders and sexualities, ethnicities and races, and
generations, along with the violence of urban life and growth.
Ultimately, Beauty and Brutality frames Manila as a vibrant and
ever-evolving metropolis that, even in the face of its
difficulties, instills hope. Contributors: Paul Michael Leonardo
Atienza, Christine Bacareza Balance, Vanessa Banta, Rosa Cordillera
A. Castillo, Roland Sintos Coloma, Gary C. Devilles, Faith R.
Kares, John B. Labella, Raffy Lerma, Bliss Cua Lim, Ferdinand M.
Lopez, Paul Nadal, Jema M. Pamintuan, Oscar Tantoco Serquina, Jr.,
Louise Jashil R. Sonido, and the editors.
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