"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.

"After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this volume examines not only the past and present position of the Philippines and its people, but also advances new frameworks for re-conceptualizing this growing field. Written by a prestigious lineup of international scholars grappling with the legacies of colonialism and imperial power, the essays examine both the genealogy of the Philippines' hyphenated identity as well as the future trajectory of the field. Hailing from multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors revisit and contest traditional renditions of Philippine colonial histories, from racial formations and the Japanese occupation to the Cold War and 'independence' from the United States. Whether addressing the contested memories of World War II, the 'voyage' of Filipino men and women into the U.S. metropole, or migrant labor and the notion of home, the assembled essays tease out the links between the past and present, with a hopeful longing for various futures. Filipino Studies makes bold declarations about the productive frameworks that open up new archives and innovative landscapes of knowledge for Filipino and Filipino American Studies"--From publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The field: dialogues, visions, tensions, and aspirations / Martin F. Manalansan IV and Augusto F. Espiritu -- Where from? Where to? Filipino studies: fields and agendas : Challenges for cultural studies under the rule of global war / Neferti Tadiar ; Toward a critical Filipino studies approach to Philippine migration / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ; Oriental enlightenment and the colonial world: a derivative discourse? / John D. Blanco -- Colonial layerings, imperial crossings : Collaboration, co-prosperity, and "complete independence": Across the Pacific (1942), across Philippine palimpsests / Victor Bascara ; A wondrous world of small places: childhood education, US colonial biopolitics, and the global Filipino / Kimberly Alidio ; Ilustrado transnationalism: cross-colonial fields and Filipino elites at the turn of the twentieth century / Julian Go ; "Not classifiable as orientals or Caucasians or Negroes": Filipino racial ontology and the stalking presence of the "insane Filipino soldier" / Dylan Rodriguez -- Nationalist inscriptions: blurrings and erasures : Transnationalizing the history of the Chinese in the Philippines during the American colonial period: the case of the Chinese exclusion act / Richard T. Chu ; Redressive nationalisms, queer victimhood, and Japanese duress / Robert Diaz ; Decolonizing Manila-men and St. Maló, Louisiana: a queer postcolonial Asian American critique / Kale Bantigue Fajardo -- The Filipino body in time and space : Pinoy posteriority / Martin Joseph Ponce ; The case of Felicidad Ocampo: a palimpsest of Transpacific feminism / Denise Cruz ; Hair lines: Filipino American art and the uses of abstraction / Sarita Echavez See ; Eartha Kitt's "Waray waray": the Filipina in black feminist performance imaginary / Lucy Burns -- Philippine cultures at large: homing in on global Filipinos and their discontents : Diasporic and liminal subjectivities in the age of empire: "beyond biculturalism" in the case of the two Ongs / Francisco Benitez ; The legacy of undesirability: Filipino TNTs, "irregular migrants," and "outlaws" in the US cultural imaginary / Anna Romina Guevarra ; "Home" and the Filipino channel: stabilizing economic security, migration patterns, and diaspora through new technologies / Emily Noelle Ignacio ; "Come back home soon": the pleasures and agonies of "homeland" visits / Rick Bonus.

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