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Introduction: Archipelagic Intermediality, Elmo Gonzaga Dec 2024

Introduction: Archipelagic Intermediality, Elmo Gonzaga

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Postcolonial Studies And Pantayong Pananaw In Philippine Historiography, Rommel A. Curaming Dec 2024

Postcolonial Studies And Pantayong Pananaw In Philippine Historiography, Rommel A. Curaming

Kritika Kultura

This paper offers a platform for a mutually critical imaginary dialogue between two different anti-Eurocentric analytic approaches, Postcolonialism (PC) and Pantayong Pananaw (From-Us, For-Us Perspective, PP). The dialogue foregrounds key areas of engagement between these approaches and allows in the process to revisit a number of vexing issues that interrogate them as well as the nature of an engaged, pro-marginalized scholarship. It suggests that while each approach can profitability learn from the other, it seems that a truly progressive aspiration may be better served by going beyond the current orientations or foci of the two approaches.


“Love Is...”: An Inaesthetic Inquiry On Love And Attention In Aureus Solito’S The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros, Jeremy De Chavez Dec 2024

“Love Is...”: An Inaesthetic Inquiry On Love And Attention In Aureus Solito’S The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros, Jeremy De Chavez

Kritika Kultura

Drawing from Alain Badiou’s concept of inaesthetics, which proposes that art conditions philosophical thought, this essay offers an inaesthetic reading of The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) and suggests that it is a film that offers enabling possibilities in the thinking of love by providing the spectator with a different experience of cinematic attention in the visual field. The author suggests that the film raises the philosophical question “What is love?” and attempts to answer the very question it poses through punctual encounters, which are moments of cinematic interruption—described by Roland Barthes as “what I add . . . and …


Conflicts And Contests: A History Of The Filipino Novel In English, Patricia May B. Jurilla Dec 2024

Conflicts And Contests: A History Of The Filipino Novel In English, Patricia May B. Jurilla

Kritika Kultura

Since its first appearance in 1921, the Filipino novel in English has always existed at a disadvantage, having to struggle with the reading public’s preference for writings in the vernacular languages, a small and not entirely receptive market, and stiff competition from imported English- language novels. What made Filipino authors produce novels in English, then? And why did they continue to do so in increasing numbers throughout the years? This essay seeks to address these questions by exploring the publishing history of Filipino novels in English during the twentieth century and by determining what forces drove the production of English-language …


María Clara For The 21st Century: Filipino Responses To “Neo-Colonial" Encounters, José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez Dec 2024

María Clara For The 21st Century: Filipino Responses To “Neo-Colonial" Encounters, José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez

Kritika Kultura

As an example of a postcolonial critique to certain hegemonic Spanish discourses in the Philippines, this essay examines the practice-as-research dance piece Love, Death, and Mompou (2006), which was a revision of the traditional María Clara dance suite. It argues that the show uses the expressiveness of the body as a trigger to subvert, re-represent and perform a range of “colonial” discourses that were reinforced by Spanish cultural producers, through funding policies, such as the Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation. In this context, this essay argues that these policies echo a colonial past by influencing the local arts scene, and …


Front Matter, Kritika Kultura Dec 2024

Front Matter, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Editor's Introduction, Vincenz Serrano Dec 2024

Editor's Introduction, Vincenz Serrano

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Jandayan Island: Symphony Of Dry Winds In A Time Without Rain, Eulalio R. Guieb Iii Dec 2024

Jandayan Island: Symphony Of Dry Winds In A Time Without Rain, Eulalio R. Guieb Iii

Kritika Kultura

This essay examines the narratives of residents of Jandayan Island in the province of Bohol in central Philippines. I highlight the social relations of actors and groups as they negotiate and broker the representation and control of the meanings of their place. The essay sifts through the individual and collective lives of islanders as they reflect and constitute the manifold interests that shape the biographies of their island. In this essay, the island is a work in progress in which shifts and transitions represent the tenuous processes of community formation in a milieu of varying interests and alliances.


The Economic Aspect In Contemporary Writing And The Matter Of Class In Literature: Reading Selected Conceptual Works, Janine Go Dimaranan, Ivan Emil A. Labayne Dec 2024

The Economic Aspect In Contemporary Writing And The Matter Of Class In Literature: Reading Selected Conceptual Works, Janine Go Dimaranan, Ivan Emil A. Labayne

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Reverse Carnival, Reactionary Laughter: Critique Of An Intermission, Arbeen Acuña Dec 2024

Reverse Carnival, Reactionary Laughter: Critique Of An Intermission, Arbeen Acuña

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Restoring The Lost Hiniktan, Denver Ejem Torres Dec 2024

Restoring The Lost Hiniktan, Denver Ejem Torres

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


The Wait On Quezon Avenue, Robert Nery Dec 2024

The Wait On Quezon Avenue, Robert Nery

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Ramon Guillermo, Martin V. Villanueva Dec 2024

Introduction, Ramon Guillermo, Martin V. Villanueva

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Mga Bintana Ng Liwanag Sa Hilaga, Kristoffer Brugada Dec 2024

Mga Bintana Ng Liwanag Sa Hilaga, Kristoffer Brugada

Kritika Kultura

Writing as an award-winning documentary producer and writer for television, Kristoffer Brugada considers Rays of the Invisible Light as a needed opportunity to hear what young Moro writers from the South feel about their own culture. In particular, Brugada lauds their attempt to give an unflinching look at local practices that outsiders may regard as politically incorrect, like the keeping of household slaves or suguon. Brugada also admires the authors’ complex treatment of issues in cases where Moros themselves reject tradition, like pork intake which is considered Haram or unclean. Although Brugada feels that the contributions are uneven in style …


The Noble Jihad, Jose Maria De Nazareno Dec 2024

The Noble Jihad, Jose Maria De Nazareno

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Resuming The ‘Skilled Worker’ Identity: The Filipinas’ Strategies In Labour Market Participation In Melbourne, Australia, Cirila P. Limpangog Dec 2024

Resuming The ‘Skilled Worker’ Identity: The Filipinas’ Strategies In Labour Market Participation In Melbourne, Australia, Cirila P. Limpangog

Kritika Kultura

Through the lens of culture intersecting with gender, race and class, this monograph looks at the reconfiguration of skilled worker identity of 20 Philippines-born women who have immigrated to Australia. Through interviews and analyses of their lived experiences, it attempts to comprehend the complexity of their unemployment, from their encounter with the labor market, to their attempts in breaking into the workforce. It contextualizes the institutional disadvantages and discrimination befalling migrant women of non-English speaking background, as well as housework and mothering responsibilities they continue to resist at home. The complex interaction of the women’s higher education, English language proficiency, …


Curriculum Vitae Of E. San Juan, Jr., Epifanio San Juan Jr. Dec 2024

Curriculum Vitae Of E. San Juan, Jr., Epifanio San Juan Jr.

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Vernacular World Making: E. San Juan, Jr. And The Rehearsal For The New International, Charlie Samuya Veric Dec 2024

Vernacular World Making: E. San Juan, Jr. And The Rehearsal For The New International, Charlie Samuya Veric

Kritika Kultura

Focusing on E. San Juan, Jr.’s The Radical Tradition in Philippine Literature, which forms the matrix of his thought as a historical materialist critic, this essay traces the development of a central argument in the author’s body of work: namely, Philippine literature—diverse in form, expansive in reach—is progressive and revolutionary. Using such a fundamental argument with complex effects, I explore its implications for rethinking not only the scope of Philippine literature, but also for reimagining human solidarity, which San Juan aptly terms the New International. As I will suggest, the New International is an important form of planetary consciousness from …


“Land Is Life”: Reflections On E. San Juan, Jr., Considerations For Filipino Critical Theory, And Notes For Environmental Justice In The United States And The Philippines, Michael Joseph Viola Dec 2024

“Land Is Life”: Reflections On E. San Juan, Jr., Considerations For Filipino Critical Theory, And Notes For Environmental Justice In The United States And The Philippines, Michael Joseph Viola

Kritika Kultura

In this article, I situate E. San Juan, Jr. as a key intellectual figure in the development of Filipino Critical Theory. I explore the ways that San Juan’s interdisciplinary and dialectical analysis of capitalist totality can offer a rich intellectual landscape to address issues of global justice—particularly environmental justice for Filipino/as in the United States and in the Philippines. Building upon San Juan’s rich scholarly archive to analyze the interaction between humans and their environment, this paper foregrounds his contributions for Filipino Critical Theory as an emergent interdisciplinary theoretical framework to reflect upon where Filipino/as have been and put into …


Themes From The History Of Capitalism To The Rise Of Us Empire In The Pacific, With Annotations From Selected Works Of E. San Juan, Jr., Kenneth E. Bauzon Dec 2024

Themes From The History Of Capitalism To The Rise Of Us Empire In The Pacific, With Annotations From Selected Works Of E. San Juan, Jr., Kenneth E. Bauzon

Kritika Kultura

This work reconstructs the history of capitalism through the era of European colonialism and the rise of the United States empire in the Pacific. The reconstruction is done by drawing from the works of E. San Juan, Jr., considered arguably one of the great contemporary cultural and literary critics of our time. In this author’s view, San Juan’s lifetime of works offers living documentation of, among others, the history and thought of the modern world highlighted by the rise of capitalism, laying the basis for contemporary neoliberal globalization, and shepherded to its hegemonic status by the preeminent empire, the United …


E. San Juan, Jr.: Remembering The Struggles During Martial Law, Elmer A. Ordoñez Dec 2024

E. San Juan, Jr.: Remembering The Struggles During Martial Law, Elmer A. Ordoñez

Kritika Kultura

Elmer A. Ordoñez recalls his encounters with E. San Juan, Jr., beginning with his receipt of a manuscript in the early 1970s that he later published as the director of the University of the Philippines Press: Carlos Bulosan and the Imagination of the Class Struggle by San Juan. For Ordoñez, this book marked a turning point in the intellectual trajectory of San Juan who was his former student. Moreover, Ordoñez situates the early and middle aspects of San Juan’s growth as an intellectual and activistin the local and international contexts that have come to shape San Juan’s life. Of particular …


Lessons From E. San Juan, Jr. On Resistance, Diversity, And Anti-Materialism In The Academy, Rachel Peterson, Joel Wendland Dec 2024

Lessons From E. San Juan, Jr. On Resistance, Diversity, And Anti-Materialism In The Academy, Rachel Peterson, Joel Wendland

Kritika Kultura

Throughout his astoundingly productive career, San Juan has unmasked how the intelligentsia becomes imbricated in the abuses of capitalism, colonialism and racism, and demands that those in the privileged space of the academy acknowledge and address ever-increasing inequality. He has dissected the theories and methodologies deployed in pedagogy and scholarship at different historical moments and has shown how issues of class, political economy, and (internal and international) colonialism become abstract and immaterial in the hands of intellectuals, even those who proclaim alliance with the wretched of the earth.


Migration, Imagination, And Transformation: Revisiting E. San Juan’S Carlos Bulosan And The Imagination Of The Class Struggle, Michael D. Pante, Leo Angelo Nery Dec 2024

Migration, Imagination, And Transformation: Revisiting E. San Juan’S Carlos Bulosan And The Imagination Of The Class Struggle, Michael D. Pante, Leo Angelo Nery

Kritika Kultura

This paper argues that an examination of the historiographical trajectory of scholarly works on the Philippine peasantry, particularly peasants in Luzon provinces, and transnational migration can deepen our understanding of Carlos Bulosan’s life and works. Using E. San Juan, Jr.’s Carlos Bulosan and the Imagination of the Class Struggle as the analytic focus in pursuing the argument, we aim to contextualize Bulosan’s life story within the larger framework of the history of Philippine peasant movements and draw connections between his life in America and the contemporary experience of Filipino migrants. To reach these objectives, we need to understand San Juan’s …


Past And Futures Of E. San Juan, Jr., Charlie Samuya Veric Dec 2024

Past And Futures Of E. San Juan, Jr., Charlie Samuya Veric

Kritika Kultura

In this synthetic introductory essay, I consider the places of E. San Juan, Jr. as gleaned from the contributions to this special section: from San Juan’s childhood in Manila and early education at the University of the Philippines at a time when veterans of the 1898 Revolution were still alive and peasant-based insurgency was on the rise; to his implicit contribution to the study of popular culture in the Philippines in the context of the emergence of nationalist struggle in the 1960s; to his turning point as a materialist literary critic who wrote the study on Bulosan which coincided with …


Alaalang Pampanitikan: Si Epifanio San Juan, Jr. Sa Panitikang Filipino, Efren R. Abueg Dec 2024

Alaalang Pampanitikan: Si Epifanio San Juan, Jr. Sa Panitikang Filipino, Efren R. Abueg

Kritika Kultura

In an essay that he calls literary memory, the acclaimed writer in Filipino Efren Abueg provides a critical biography of E. San Juan, Jr. It begins with San Juan’s coming of age at Jose Abad Santos where he became the editor-in-chief of the school paper, and explores the print culture of the period along the way. Then it transitions into the college years of San Juan in the age of decolonization at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, during which he came under the tutelage of Elmer Ordoñez, Francisco Arcellana, and NVM Gonzales, among others. Abueg, in particular, pays attention to …


From “Game-Like Realism” To The “Imagination-Oriented Aesthetic”: Reconsidering Bourdieu’S Contribution To Fan Studies In The Light Of Japanese Manga And Otaku Theory, Zoltan Kacsuk Dec 2024

From “Game-Like Realism” To The “Imagination-Oriented Aesthetic”: Reconsidering Bourdieu’S Contribution To Fan Studies In The Light Of Japanese Manga And Otaku Theory, Zoltan Kacsuk

Kritika Kultura

Following Casey Brienza’s call for drawing on Japanese “otaku theory” in order to further comics studies, the present article demonstrates how the wider interrelated discourse around anime, manga, and otaku can be productively related to fields such as Western fan studies. Focusing on Azuma Hiroki’s book The Birth of Game-like Realism this paper both highlights the theoretical richness of works which have yet to be translated into English, and emphasizes the importance of manga research – in this case Itō Gō’s book Tezuka is Dead – beyond the confines of manga/comics studies. Building on a novel reading of Azuma’s framework …


Kouno Fumiyo’S Hiroshima Manga: A Style-Centered Attempt At Re-Reading, Takeuchi Miho Dec 2024

Kouno Fumiyo’S Hiroshima Manga: A Style-Centered Attempt At Re-Reading, Takeuchi Miho

Kritika Kultura

Kouno Fumiyo’s graphic narratives about Hiroshima, beginning with Yūnagi no machi, sakura no kuni (Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, 2004), have drawn attention as a new kind of A-bomb manga, but they have also met with harsh criticism by historians who privilege story and representational content when approaching manga. Against their charge of a lack of criticality, this review article highlights the critical potential of Kouno’s graphic narratives by focusing on how comics-specific style, especially paneling and linework, affects both narrative content and the act of reading. Kouno’s works exhibit a number of pecularities, ranging from what …


Re-Viewing Thomas Lamarre’S The Anime Machine After Hayao Miyazaki’S The Wind Rises: On The Critical Potential Of Anime, Selen Çalık Dec 2024

Re-Viewing Thomas Lamarre’S The Anime Machine After Hayao Miyazaki’S The Wind Rises: On The Critical Potential Of Anime, Selen Çalık

Kritika Kultura

This article aims to demonstrate how exactly Thomas Lamarre reads movement, plot, and characters in The Anime Machine (2009), as defined to an extent, yet not completely determined by the concept of the animetic machine. Mimicking the first part of Lamarre’s book, it approaches Miyazaki’s last work, The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu, 2013). What Lamarre sees in Miyazaki’s manga eiga is a new way of gaining “a free relation to technology” as idealized by Heideggerian philosophy, but, of course, “in animation” (Lamarre 62). This free, critical relation seems to be most noticeably depicted in Nausicaä of the Valley of the …


Post 3-11 Japanese Political Cartooning With A Satirical Bite: Non-Newspaper Cartoons And Their Potential, Ronald Stewart Dec 2024

Post 3-11 Japanese Political Cartooning With A Satirical Bite: Non-Newspaper Cartoons And Their Potential, Ronald Stewart

Kritika Kultura

Japanese political cartooning is widely considered to be weak: lacking in number and scope, and importantly, lacking in the aggression necessary to produce biting satire. A major reason for this low assessment is that the most publicly visible forum for political cartoons, the national daily newspapers, have, particularly since the 1980s, reduced the number and prominence of the cartoons they carry, and settled into using primarily mild, non-offensive cartoons. Yet there are political cartoons to be found elsewhere in Japan, in smaller circulation magazines and on the Internet. The aim of this paper is to examine these less viewed political …


Communicating Emotions: How Commercial Manga For Women Approaches 3.11, Olga Antononoka Dec 2024

Communicating Emotions: How Commercial Manga For Women Approaches 3.11, Olga Antononoka

Kritika Kultura

Hagio Moto’s manga series Nanohana was one of the first attempts in female-oriented mainstream manga to depict the 3.11 tragedy and its aftermath. However, it appears to lack in overt social critique, providing instead a highly emotional story about overcoming hardship and maturing. Via a close-reading of Nanohana this article analyzes the modus operandi of social critique in popular manga highlighting the visual conventions of female manga genres and thereby going beyond the plotlines, which have been at the center of critical attention so far. The article contrasts the initial one-shot “Nanohana,” which directly addresses 3.11, with the subsequent three …