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Intellectual Portrait Gallery: Agusto Fauni Espiritu's Five Faces Of Exile, Gerald Burns Dec 2024

Intellectual Portrait Gallery: Agusto Fauni Espiritu's Five Faces Of Exile, Gerald Burns

Kritika Kultura

Espiritu writes a book which may be described as a “collective intellectual biography” of five figures in Philippine letters whose lives and texts were influenced by their expatriation in America: Carlos P. Romulo, Carlos Bulosan, Jose Garcia Villa, N.V.M. Gonzalez, and Bienvenido Santos. With a biographer’s touch, Espiritu identifies the themes that are more or less common and played out differently among them: performativity, ambivalence, nationalism in their self-representation, cultural hybridity, and patronage relations—leading to what may be called a genuine “transnational” perspective for Asian American intellectual history. However, his use of other big terms such as “exile,” “nation,” “Filipino” …


Front Matter, Kritika Kultura Dec 2024

Front Matter, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Ang Mga Pinagdaanang Buhay Ng Ibong Adarna: Narrativity And Ideology In The Adarna's Corrido And Filmic Versions, Francisco Benitez Dec 2024

Ang Mga Pinagdaanang Buhay Ng Ibong Adarna: Narrativity And Ideology In The Adarna's Corrido And Filmic Versions, Francisco Benitez

Kritika Kultura

Through a consideration of narrativity, the paper explores different structures of recognition in the corrido and 1941 filmic versions of the Ibong Adarna. The paper compares the chapbook’s context and narrative techniques with that of the film’s capacity to address an audience and creating subject-forms. It explores the applicability of James Siegel’s concept of the lingua franca’s communicative power to the Philippine situation, and suggests that different textual technologies contain different though overlapping grammars that affect their ideological functions.


Imagined Geographies: An Interview With Romesh Gunesekera (February 2, 2007), Lawrence L. Ypil Dec 2024

Imagined Geographies: An Interview With Romesh Gunesekera (February 2, 2007), Lawrence L. Ypil

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Poems, Mary Kennan Herbert Dec 2024

Poems, Mary Kennan Herbert

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Scenes Of Translation: Responses To Responses, Vicente L. Rafael Dec 2024

Scenes Of Translation: Responses To Responses, Vicente L. Rafael

Kritika Kultura

In his “Response to Responses,” Vicente Rafael thanks and answers the questions raised during the forum. To Gary Devilles’s comment of his “remaining silent” in the way translation can be “radicalized into an ethical technology or a strategic pedagogy,” Rafael offers the trope of revenge—a desire for justice, which results from the Spanish misrecognition of Filipino attempts at translation—and the language of secrecy and solidarity of the 1896 Revolution—which results from the failure of Castilian to become lingua franca—as political technics in themselves. To Ramon Guillermo’s comment of the book’s impoverished, restrictive, and imprecise notions of translation, Rafael reiterates and …


Commentary On The Promise Of The Foreign, Remmon E. Barbaza Dec 2024

Commentary On The Promise Of The Foreign, Remmon E. Barbaza

Kritika Kultura

Guided by key Heideggerian insights, this review focuses on two points: 1) the relationship between what is foreign and what is one’s own; 2) language and history. The promise of the foreign belongs to the allure of the unknown, and the impulse to know the unknown belongs to the “de-distancing” character of the human—the tendency of human beings to bring things to nearness, thereby negating the distance that stands between them and the things they encounter in the world. Rafael has shown that the Filipinos were driven by the desire to bring what is foreign (in their case, Spain) near …


Response To The Promise Of The Foreign, Roland Tolentino Dec 2024

Response To The Promise Of The Foreign, Roland Tolentino

Kritika Kultura

In his “Response to The Promise of the Foreign,” Roland Tolentino generates a battery of provocative questions that seeks to resituate Rafael’s trope of “the foreign,” particularly in the field of Philippine Studies. Here, Tolentino asks nine questions that open up “the foreign” into zones of contacts with other contexts: the foreign in relation to the linguistic context of the period; its relationship with the vernacular, particularly in the case of the recodification of the baybayin; its involvement with act of writing and rewriting; its viability as a social project and its political efficacy; the foreign and its relation to …


A Book Review Of The Promise Of The Foreign, Ramon Guillermo Dec 2024

A Book Review Of The Promise Of The Foreign, Ramon Guillermo

Kritika Kultura

Primarily taking issue with Rafael’s definition of translation as “that double process of appropriating and replacing what is foreign while keeping its foreignness in view,” this review attempts to show the unusually restrictive nature of this definition and proposes a more empirical approach to the study of translation and lexicalization.


A Book Review Of Vicente L. Rafael's The Promise Of The Foreign, Gary C. Devilles Dec 2024

A Book Review Of Vicente L. Rafael's The Promise Of The Foreign, Gary C. Devilles

Kritika Kultura

The book The Promise of the Foreign is without doubt well-written and contributes to our understanding of the fundamental assumptions informing nationalist discourse, as well as the contradictions and complex realities at work in Philippine society. However, the book is arguably silent on how such translation can also be radicalized into an ethical technology or strategic pedagogy such that the foreign within various socio-political sites of analysis like the natives, masses, the Chinese are not just regarded as contaminations between the Philippines and the outside but rather as ambiguities that create the conditions of possibility of the nation-state and its …


A Reaction To "Modernist Poetic Practices In English Poetry From Southeast Asia: A Comparison Between Jose Garcia Villa And Arthur Yap", Jonathan Chua Dec 2024

A Reaction To "Modernist Poetic Practices In English Poetry From Southeast Asia: A Comparison Between Jose Garcia Villa And Arthur Yap", Jonathan Chua

Kritika Kultura

This follow-through develops Patke’s characterization of Jose Garcia Villa as a heroic figure by an account of the reception to his poetry in the Philippines since World War II. Villa’s insistence on the primacy of art alienated him from critics in the late sixties and seventies who saw him as a “mental colony.” Later postcolonial criticism, however, allowed for a more favorable interpretation of Villa.


American Globality And The Us Prison Regime: State Violence And White Supremacy From Abu Ghraib To Stockton To Bagong Diwa, Dylan Rodriguez Dec 2024

American Globality And The Us Prison Regime: State Violence And White Supremacy From Abu Ghraib To Stockton To Bagong Diwa, Dylan Rodriguez

Kritika Kultura

What do we make of the abiding significance of state-sanctioned human captivity and imprisonment on a massive, unprecedented scale as a primary American modality of civilization? Democracy? Modernity and (postmodern) Nation-building? The American prison intertwines as it animates two structural logics: 1) white supremacy as a historical modality of social (dis)organization, and 2) the circulation, militarization, and mobilization of allegedly local or domestic US social formations across global geographies, including and beyond the Philippines. This paper considers the formation of the United States prison industrial complex as an epochal global regime that is integral to the fabric of an incipient …


Modernist Poetic Practices In English Poetry From Southeast Asia: A Comparison Between Jose Garcia Villa And Arthur Yap, Rajeev S. Patke Dec 2024

Modernist Poetic Practices In English Poetry From Southeast Asia: A Comparison Between Jose Garcia Villa And Arthur Yap, Rajeev S. Patke

Kritika Kultura

The paper develops a comparison between Jose Garcia Villa (1908-97) and Arthur Yap (1943-2006) as the principal Modernists of English poetry from Southeast Asia. Though they wrote from very dissimilar backgrounds, and in very different circumstances, each represents for his time and place a radical assimilation of Western poetic practices into a new form of experimental writing. The comparison delineates the various ways in which their example reveals the scope and limits of what can be achieved through a systematic subversion of traditional modes of poetic writing in Southeast Asia.


Front Matter, Kritika Kultura Dec 2024

Front Matter, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Poems, Lawrence Ypil Dec 2024

Poems, Lawrence Ypil

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Writing Fiction: Imagination, History, And Voice In Singapore Fiction, Suchen Christine Lim Dec 2024

Writing Fiction: Imagination, History, And Voice In Singapore Fiction, Suchen Christine Lim

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Fungibility, Dead Souls, And Filipino Ocws, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes Dec 2024

Fungibility, Dead Souls, And Filipino Ocws, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes

Kritika Kultura

This self-reflective essay investigates the unimportance of the individual in a capitalist economy. Drawing from his working experience in investment banking, the author recognizes that individuals are not recognized as unique persons but are, instead, absorbed into a system that is more concerned with trade and profit. This reflection informs his reading of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls: the transaction of buying and selling souls and the realization of individuality. His reading then brings Ocampo Reyes to the final reflection that it is all too common to treat Filipino overseas contract workers (OCWs) as fungible objects lacking individuality.


Ameica Is In The Heart As A Colonial-Immigrant Novel Engaging The Bildungsroman, Gabriel Jose Gonzales S.J. Dec 2024

Ameica Is In The Heart As A Colonial-Immigrant Novel Engaging The Bildungsroman, Gabriel Jose Gonzales S.J.

Kritika Kultura

Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart, the first Filipino American novel, has held a special place as one of the first of Asian American literary writing, but its craft has also been questioned because of the plainness of its language and its repetitious, tortuous plot. Through an evaluation and analysis of the novel as a Bildungsroman, this paper argues that the seeming failure of the plot to provide a coherent narrative of development is in itself the literary manifestation of the frustrating socio-economic realities in which the first Filipinos in America lived. Bulosan’s novel is therefore not so much …


Caveats On The Problem Of Understanding Peirce's Semiotics And Pragmatism, E. San Juan Jr. Dec 2024

Caveats On The Problem Of Understanding Peirce's Semiotics And Pragmatism, E. San Juan Jr.

Kritika Kultura

“Caveats” is San Juan’s response to “Addendum” in which he praises Stecconi’s focus on Peirce’s theory of knowledge rather than merely on his linguistic paradigm. San Juan, however, disagrees with Stecconi for “conflating the various pragmatisms into one lump.” San Juan prefers to regard Peirce as “a moderate realist” and reiterates the potential relevance of Pierce’s semiotics to the global war on terrorism and the Sri Lankan civil war.


The Case Of The Disappearing Filipino American Houseboy: Speculation On Double Indemnity And The United States Imperialism, Victor Bascara Dec 2024

The Case Of The Disappearing Filipino American Houseboy: Speculation On Double Indemnity And The United States Imperialism, Victor Bascara

Kritika Kultura

The creations of a new cultural formation, US imperialism, development, and globalization are traced in this article by the use of James M. Cain’s 1936 pulp novella-turned-film Double Indemnity. Representations of the Fil-Am houseboy, his disappearance and re-appearance in the texts, provide an impetus for discovering the cultural transitions from the colonial to the postcolonial periods.


Signs, Meaning, Interpretation: C. S. Peirce's Critique Of Deconstruction And Post-Structuralism, E. San Juan Jr. Dec 2024

Signs, Meaning, Interpretation: C. S. Peirce's Critique Of Deconstruction And Post-Structuralism, E. San Juan Jr.

Kritika Kultura

From the perspective of Peircian semiotics, this paper presents a prolegomenon of “a science of pragmaticist aesthetics.” Following the fundamental epistemological categories of C. S. Pierce, San Juan reads Michael’s Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost as unraveling the anatomy of terror in Sri Lanka. Such a reading, for San Juan, “elicit signs of whether we, and others in the collaborative enterprise, embody,” quoting Pierce, “an intelligence capable of learning by experience.”


Indonesian Literature After Reformasi: The Tongues Of Women, Harry Aveling Dec 2024

Indonesian Literature After Reformasi: The Tongues Of Women, Harry Aveling

Kritika Kultura

The end of the Suharto regime in May 1998 unleashed a flood of free speech in Indonesian literature and the popular press, which had long been suppressed during the “New Order” period. In literature, this new freedom was signified by the theme of “Sastra Reformasi,” a literature of “Reformation.” This writing was socially committed to changing the regime and promoting new and more democratic values. This paper discusses works by three major writers of this new era, all of them women: Helvi Tiana Rosa, Ayu Utami, and Dewi Lestari. Each of these writers deals with this period of rapid social …


Front Matter, Kritika Kultura Dec 2024

Front Matter, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Three Poems, Mabi David Dec 2024

Three Poems, Mabi David

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Going To Yale, Charlie Samuya Veric Dec 2024

Going To Yale, Charlie Samuya Veric

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


En-Gendering Desire In Aida Santos's Lesbian Poetry, Danicar Mariano Dec 2024

En-Gendering Desire In Aida Santos's Lesbian Poetry, Danicar Mariano

Kritika Kultura

Lesbian feminist literary criticism seeks to deconstruct the essential categories of male and female and their “natural” link to the production of desire, enabling an insightful criticism that formalism and feminism alone cannot fully venture in. Thus, this lesbian feminist literary reading of Aida Santos’s poetry critiques heteropatriarchy in language, desire and gender by questioning the binary assumption operative in them. A binary logic defines women and men by what each are not, highlighting one sex over the other, and presenting them as in need each other. This patriarchal assumption intersects with compulsory heterosexuality to marginalize lesbian existence in the …


Allied Forces, Forced Alliances: A Reaction To Gerald T. Burns's "Enemies And Friends: A Consideration Of The Burnham Kidnapping", J. P. Jacobo Dec 2024

Allied Forces, Forced Alliances: A Reaction To Gerald T. Burns's "Enemies And Friends: A Consideration Of The Burnham Kidnapping", J. P. Jacobo

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Bending English For The Filipino Stage, Binevenido L. Lumbera Dec 2024

Bending English For The Filipino Stage, Binevenido L. Lumbera

Kritika Kultura

Through representative examples of Filipino plays in English that were written during the American colonial regime, the article traces how playwriting and the theater were instrumental in teaching the English language to Filipinos educated in the American educational project. To make the transition from the local languages to the newly acquired English easier to contextualize, the English in the colonial-period plays was consciously stylized to sound “as though [the characters] were speaking in their own tongues”—thus the phrase ‘bending English’. Having “bent English” indeed does make reading easier for Filipinos, however the performances of plays with “bent English” provide a …


Enemies And Friends: A Consideration Of The Burnham Kidnapping, Gerald T. Burns Dec 2024

Enemies And Friends: A Consideration Of The Burnham Kidnapping, Gerald T. Burns

Kritika Kultura

The relationships between the political and the spiritual, hostage-taker and victim, friends and enemies, the US and the Philippines are shaped and contested in the light of journalistic accounts of the Burnhams’ hostage crisis in 2001, and in particular Gracia Burnham’s reconstruction of it in her memoir. The following four distinct but related contexts are used as lens to explore the binarisms: 1) the psychosocial dynamics and literary traditions of captivity; 2) what used to be billed the “special” but has more recently and perhaps more accurately been called the “entangled” relationship between the United States and the Philippines; 3) …


Front Matter, Kritika Kultura Dec 2024

Front Matter, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.