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Four Poems, Shane Carreon Dec 2024

Four Poems, Shane Carreon

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


A Bet With My Uncle Luis (A Translation Of "Una Apuesta Con Mi Tio Luis"), Ma. Luisa P. Young Dec 2024

A Bet With My Uncle Luis (A Translation Of "Una Apuesta Con Mi Tio Luis"), Ma. Luisa P. Young

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Four Poems, Francis Paolo Quina Dec 2024

Four Poems, Francis Paolo Quina

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Two, Erika M. Carreon Dec 2024

Two, Erika M. Carreon

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


"She Hates Elmo's Voice" And Other Poems, Jim Pascual Agustin Dec 2024

"She Hates Elmo's Voice" And Other Poems, Jim Pascual Agustin

Kritika Kultura

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Madrid 1884 & Tondo 1892, Arbeen Acuña, Dennis S. Aguinaldo Dec 2024

Madrid 1884 & Tondo 1892, Arbeen Acuña, Dennis S. Aguinaldo

Kritika Kultura

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Small Talk, Kristine Reynaldo Dec 2024

Small Talk, Kristine Reynaldo

Kritika Kultura

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Poems From "What Comes After", Eliza Victoria Dec 2024

Poems From "What Comes After", Eliza Victoria

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Four Poems, Mikael De Lara Co Dec 2024

Four Poems, Mikael De Lara Co

Kritika Kultura

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How Can I Get There?, Laurel Fantauzzo Dec 2024

How Can I Get There?, Laurel Fantauzzo

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Poems From "Morpo", Jose Perez Beduya, Allan Popa Dec 2024

Poems From "Morpo", Jose Perez Beduya, Allan Popa

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Voice, John Bengan Dec 2024

Voice, John Bengan

Kritika Kultura

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The Nigerian Diaspora And National Development: Contributions, Challenges, And Lessons From Other Countries, Sharkdam Wapmuk, Oluwatooni Akinkuotu, Vincent Ibonye Dec 2024

The Nigerian Diaspora And National Development: Contributions, Challenges, And Lessons From Other Countries, Sharkdam Wapmuk, Oluwatooni Akinkuotu, Vincent Ibonye

Kritika Kultura

The paper, in general terms, clarifies and discusses the link between the Diaspora and the issue of development in general, and, in specific terms examines the role as well as the huge potential of the Nigerian Diaspora in national development. Drawing lessons from the historical as well as contemporary experiences of some countries such as India, China, Philippines, Italy, and Ghana, the paper argues that the Diaspora can be an agent of national development. In analyzing the different Diasporas and remittances from Diasporas from the different countries, the paper took cognizance of the fact that they are not similar to …


Poems From “Post-Something”, Franz Joel Libo-On Dec 2024

Poems From “Post-Something”, Franz Joel Libo-On

Kritika Kultura

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Not Language Alone: Translation And Culture, Bienvenido Lumbera Dec 2024

Not Language Alone: Translation And Culture, Bienvenido Lumbera

Kritika Kultura

Rendering a literary work into another language requires more than plain profi- ciency in the original language of the piece. Culture and history are so meshed in language that translation requires the translator to delve into the context that went into the creation of the literary text. This paper is based on the work that went into the making of my translation into Tagalog of four plays coming from differ- ent countries and climes. The plays confronted me with four different cultural and historical contexts that required to be clarified to make the translations reasonably faithful to the original works.


Carlos Bulosan And A Collective Outline For Critical Filipina And Filipino Studies, Michael Viola, Valerie Francisco, Amanda Solomon Amorao Dec 2024

Carlos Bulosan And A Collective Outline For Critical Filipina And Filipino Studies, Michael Viola, Valerie Francisco, Amanda Solomon Amorao

Kritika Kultura

As an activist-scholar formation called the Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Collective (CFFSC) we take the position that Carlos Bulosan is indispensable for an emerging multidisciplinary field that is equipped in defying the neoliberal onslaught against ethnic studies in the United States and the unbridled racism most evident in the ongoing US “wars of terrorism” that haunt people of color throughout the world. We take seriously Bulosan’s insight that “[I]f the writer has any significance, [s]he should write about the world in which [s]he lives: interpret his [her] time and envision the future through his [her] knowledge of historical reality” …


Manuel Blanco’S El Indio And The History Of A Rumor, Resil B. Mojares Dec 2024

Manuel Blanco’S El Indio And The History Of A Rumor, Resil B. Mojares

Kritika Kultura

The paper explores the social meanings that can be elicited from tracking the history of a rumor. It takes as its example the nineteenth-century apocryphal story of an Augustinian friar who labored for years on a treatise on the character of the Philippine native (indio) only to leave behind, upon his death, a book of blank pages. Tracing the origins and passage of the rumor and unpacking the various interpretations of the story, the paper demonstrates what can be gained from the study of rumors in Philippine history.


Beyond The Innocence Of Globalization: The Abiding Necessity Of Carlos Bulosan’S Anti-Imperialist Imagination, Tim Libretti Dec 2024

Beyond The Innocence Of Globalization: The Abiding Necessity Of Carlos Bulosan’S Anti-Imperialist Imagination, Tim Libretti

Kritika Kultura

This essay analyzes Carlos Bulosan’s writing in terms of the way he works to develop an aesthetic that comprehends and cognitively maps the repetitive dynamics of US and global colonial capitalism. More precisely, the essay examines how Bulosan’s aesthetic practice both grapples with the question of how an individual and collective consciousness can grasp the systemic processes that condition experience and also how it fosters that consciousness in the way it represents the relationships among experience, the larger class and colonial dynamics that produce that experience, and the ideological processes that intervene in our comprehension of those dynamics. In developing …


Organic And Multicultural Ways Of Reading Bulosan, John Streamas Dec 2024

Organic And Multicultural Ways Of Reading Bulosan, John Streamas

Kritika Kultura

This essay argues that students in introductory classes read America Is in the Heart more perceptively than most professional “multicultural” critics. Students’ indifference to the book’s genre, for example, allows them to see clearly the meaning and value of its Part One, and to read the closing paragraph not as a postmodern refusal of closure but as a step on the way toward reconciling “America” with the work of “becoming Filipino.” Such engagement with the book is an example of “organic” reading.


The Manong’S “Songs Of Love”: Gendered And Sexualized Dimensions Of Carlos Bulosan’S Literature And Labor Activism, Amanda Solomon Amorao Dec 2024

The Manong’S “Songs Of Love”: Gendered And Sexualized Dimensions Of Carlos Bulosan’S Literature And Labor Activism, Amanda Solomon Amorao

Kritika Kultura

This article takes the 2013 passage of California Assembly Bill 123, which mandates instruction on the Filipino contribution to the state’s farm workers movement in public education curriculum, as an occasion to analyze the gendered and sexualized dimensions of Carlos Bulosan’s literature and labor activism. The article considers the texts and contexts of America is in the Heart and Bulosan’s short story “As Long as the Grass Shall Grow” to demonstrate how Bulosan’s materialist, dialectical analysis also involves an incisive critique of the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality. As Bulosan narrates the proletariat struggles of the manong generation, …


Carlos Bulosan On Writing: The Role Of Letters, Marilyn C. Alquizola, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Dec 2024

Carlos Bulosan On Writing: The Role Of Letters, Marilyn C. Alquizola, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Kritika Kultura

Two themes from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s study, Kafka Toward a Minor Literature, serve as an inspiration for this rumination on Carlos Bulosan’s 1955 letter to Florentino B. Valeros about writing and the responsibilities of the writer. Because Bulosan was an inherently political writer, his correspondence is part-and-parcel of his writing machine, inclusive of his poetry, short stories, novels, and expository essays. In this, Bulosan’s case is parallel to that of Kafka. In contradistinction to Kafka, however, Bulosan’s letters are not easily categorized in terms of thematics such as those Deleuze and Guattari identify in the cases of Kafka …


Writers And Exile: Carlos Bulosan And Dolores Stephens Feria, Monica Feria Dec 2024

Writers And Exile: Carlos Bulosan And Dolores Stephens Feria, Monica Feria

Kritika Kultura

This paper explores the links between two writers in exile – Carlos Bulosan, a Filipino migrant in the United States, and Dolores Stephens Feria, an American migrant in the Philippines. Its aim is to gather more insight into the “condition of exile” as a framework for understanding writers and literary traditions. For the author, being the daughter of Dolores, this is both a personal and academic exploration.


Excavating The Bulosan Ruins: What Is At Stake In Re-Discovering The Anti-Imperialist Writing In The Age Of Us Global Terrorism?, E. San Juan Jr. Dec 2024

Excavating The Bulosan Ruins: What Is At Stake In Re-Discovering The Anti-Imperialist Writing In The Age Of Us Global Terrorism?, E. San Juan Jr.

Kritika Kultura

Based on research in the unpublished papers of Sanora Babb at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, this essay uncovers new information about Bulosan’s relations with Sanora and her sister Dorothy Babb, the two American women who virtually “made” him into a writer. Given his intimacy with both women, active in leftwing and Communist Party activities in Los Angeles during the formative years of Bulosan’s life, as well as his association with leftist union leaders in Seattle, Bulosan’s radical affiliations are no longer in doubt, even without FBI documentation. Apocryphal Bulosan manuscripts such as All the Conspirators are bound …


Introduction By Guest Editor, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao Dec 2024

Introduction By Guest Editor, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Translation And The Problem Of Realism In Philippine Literature In English, J. Neil C. Garcia Dec 2024

Translation And The Problem Of Realism In Philippine Literature In English, J. Neil C. Garcia

Kritika Kultura

To the degree that Philippine literature in English is translational it cannot be realistic: realism is a signifying practice that presupposes a monocultural ground, upon which the “consensus” of representational fidelity can happen. And yet, much of the criticism of this literature, as produced by Filipinos themselves, has generally failed to take note of this crucial precondition, enacting a ruinous category mistake that, among other things, unwittingly confounds contemporary departures from the referential towards the “avant-garde” and/or antimimetic modes, as these are espoused by young Filipino poets and fictionists alike. Finally, this paper argues that the various literary practices encoded …


Performing Elusive Homecomings: Mobility, Embodiment, And Diasporic Filipino Youth, Martin F. Manalansan Iv Dec 2024

Performing Elusive Homecomings: Mobility, Embodiment, And Diasporic Filipino Youth, Martin F. Manalansan Iv

Kritika Kultura

The Filipino global diaspora has precipitated the circulation of embodied modes of identification and belonging. This paper focuses on the experiences of Filipino young people who were born and/or raised abroad, and who have returned to the Philippines to seek fame and economic mobility in the entertainment industry. These migrant hopefuls, unlike older counterparts, enact the material tensions and semantic contradictions that form part of popular discourse around life abroad. As such, institutional media practices and mass audience perceptions mirror such conditions and create shifting systems of valuation around such things as skin color, accent, and bodily comportment. To respond …


In The Defiles Of Abstraction, Patrick D. Flores Dec 2024

In The Defiles Of Abstraction, Patrick D. Flores

Kritika Kultura

In this rereading of the history of modern art in the Philippines, Lee Aguinaldo is situated within the turns in the engagement of the field with modernity, beginning in the late twenties until the sixties and so scanning the period after the academic romanticism of Fernando Amosolo through the eclectic modernist styles of the Philippine Art Gallery. In this scheme, the work of Aguinaldo and the manner in which it has been imagined in the context of modern art is revisited, with the view of reflecting on the historiographic and critical language that has been harnessed to explain and understand …


Days Of Yore, Days Of Change, Wai Chew Sim, Chuah Guat Eng Dec 2024

Days Of Yore, Days Of Change, Wai Chew Sim, Chuah Guat Eng

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Performing Global At Intelstar: Figuring The Call Center On Manila Stage, Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco Dec 2024

Performing Global At Intelstar: Figuring The Call Center On Manila Stage, Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco

Kritika Kultura

Set in Makati, the central business district of the National Capital Region, Welcome to IntelStar is a monodrama satirizing the call center industry in the Philippines. The performance is an exemplar in positioning a diasporic consequence of globalization vis-à-vis nationalism because it calls on a national sentiment to the extent that the play illustrates resistance to globalization’s economic and neoliberal attachments, often perceived as the destructive force of cultural diversity and uniqueness. In relation, the performance used a recurring trope in Philippine culture, which is called in the essay as the Americanization issue: the conception of the Filipino/a as a …


Beyond The Color Line: Intersectional Considerations In Chuah Guat Eng’S Fiction, Wai Chew Sim Dec 2024

Beyond The Color Line: Intersectional Considerations In Chuah Guat Eng’S Fiction, Wai Chew Sim

Kritika Kultura

This essay argues that the work of Malaysian-Chinese author Chuah Guat Eng gives pause to the culturalism that dominates literary analysis. Articulated primarily through identity politics (the politics of recognition), culturalism’s self- understanding keeps at a distance other forms of social justice commitments including class struggle. However, Chuah spotlights their intersectionality in Malaysia and enjoins us to combine the two – to see the native population’s demand for economic parity and rural development as coterminous in some respects with the demands for recognition made by settler communities. In particular, Chuah’s Echoes of Silence (1994) points to the commensurability between socialist …