Neferti Xina M Tadiar

Things Fall Away

Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization

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Produktbeschreibung

Through the intersections of literature and history, the book explores the effect of globalization on the Phillippines beginning in the 1970s through the 1990s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344315
• ISBN-10: 0822344319
• Artikelnr.: 25878545

Autorenporträt

Neferti X. M. Tadiar

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Loosed Upon the World 1
Part I. Feminization
1. Prostituted Filipinas and the Crisis of Philippine Culture 25
2. Women Alone 59
3. Poetics of Filipina Export 103
Part II. Urbanization
4. Modern Refuse in the "City of Man" 143
5. Petty Adventures in (the Nation's) Capital 183
6. Metropolitan Debris 217
Part III. Revolution
7. Revolutionary Imagination and the Masses 265
8. Guerilla Passion and the Unfinished Cultural Revolution 299
9. The Sorrows of People 333
Notes 379
Bibliography 445
Index 469