More Postcolonial Than We Admit 1: Producing the Filipino After 1946 (Academica Filipina +)

Part of a two-volume anthology, More Postcolonial Than We Admit 1: Producing the Filipino After 1946 reconstructs the cultural and intellectual forms of Filipino postcolonial history after the US grant of independence to the Philippines. Covering the period from the founding of the postcolony in 1946 to the fall of the first Marcos regime in 1986, this volume accounts for the impact of US political, economic, and cultural hegemony on Filipino affairs. It lays bare how Filipino intellectuals respond to the question of American influence, on the one hand, and decolonization, on the other hand. The anthology demonstrates the confluences and contradictions of the dual force of US neocolonial capture and Philippine postcolonial emergence. By showing the full gamut of the historical development of Filipino postcolonial thought from the Cold War, to the reconsolidation of nationalism, to the imposition of authoritarianism, and to the eventual fall of the Marcos regime, it describes the key turns in the cultural life of the postcolony and the intellectual growth of our key thinkers. In doing so, the anthology delineates the substance and spirit of the postcolonial Filipino during the first 40 years of the modern Philippine republic. Read more