After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-United States Confrontations; Author: San Juan, E.; Paperback

Author: San Juan, E.
Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspecitves; Paperback
272 pages
Published: September 2000
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0847698610

Caught between the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space between past and present. Between the memory of colonial experience and an emergent nation-making dream, can a meaningful future be envisioned? This provocative book explores this problematic zone of difference through a critique of the Western production of knowledge in the context of local resistance.Caught between the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space between past and present. This work explores this problematic zone of difference through a critique of the Western production in the context of local resistance.