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From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a
call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor
performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East,
and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks,
and other lifeworlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human
relations. Affective labor and time are re-articulated in a
capacious archive of storytelling about the Filipino labor diaspora
in fiction, musical performance, ethnography, and documentary film.
Exploring these cultural practices, Filipino Time traces other ways
of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others, by
weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but
habitable textures of labortime. Migrant subjects harness time and
the imagination in their creative, life making capacities to make
communal worlds out of one steeped in the temporalities and logics
of capital.
From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a
call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor
performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East,
and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks,
and other lifeworlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human
relations. Affective labor and time are re-articulated in a
capacious archive of storytelling about the Filipino labor diaspora
in fiction, musical performance, ethnography, and documentary film.
Exploring these cultural practices, Filipino Time traces other ways
of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others, by
weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but
habitable textures of labortime. Migrant subjects harness time and
the imagination in their creative, life making capacities to make
communal worlds out of one steeped in the temporalities and logics
of capital.
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award This
collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished
Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains
work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's
writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is
his only book published in the United States. Replaces ISBN
9780295956954
In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial
killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing "to be everywhere and nowhere,"
Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino
presence in the United States, symptomatic of American
imperialism's invisibility to itself. In American Tropics, Isaac
explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other
"unincorporated" parts of the U.S. nation that obscure the
contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies. Isaac
boldly examines the American empire's images of the Philippines in
turn-of-the-century legal debates over Puerto Rico, Progressive-era
popular literature set in Latin American borderlands, and
midcentury Hollywood cinema staged in Hawai'i and the Pacific
islands. Isaac scrutinizes media coverage of the Cunanan case, Boy
Scout adventure novels, and Hollywood films such as The Real Glory
(1939) and Blue Hawaii (1961) to argue that territorial sites of
occupation are an important part of American identity. American
Tropics further reveals the imperial imagination's role in shaping
national meaning in novels such as Carlos Bulosan's America Is in
the Heart (1946) and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters (1990), Filipino
American novels forced to articulate the empire's enfolded but
disavowed borders. Tracing the American empire from the beginning
of the twentieth century to Philippine liberation and the U.S.
civil rights movement, American Tropics lays bare Filipino
Americans' unique form of belonging marked indelibly by imperialism
and at odds with U.S. racial politics and culture. Allan Punzalan
Isaac is assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University.
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