Synopsis
A revaluation of the significance of the Filipino national hero's (Jose Rizal's) discourse on freedom, human rights, and national liberation centering on the liberation of women and its ramifications in the total emancipation of a nation-people from colonial barbarism, imperial subjugation, and patriarchal hegemony. This supplements the essays of the author in RIZAL IN OUR TIME (revised edition) published by Anvil Publishing Inc. ,Manila, Philippines, in 2011.
About the Author
E. SAN JUAN Jr. is emeritus professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Ethnic Studies; recently a fellow of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas; and of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University; taught at Leuven University, Belgium; Washington State University; University of Connecticut; Brooklyn College, CUNY; Bowling Green State University; University of Trento, Italy; University of California, Davis; and Tamkang University, Taiwan. Recent books include RACISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES (Duke); BALIKBAYANG SINTA: AN E. SAN JUAN READER (Ateneo), CRITIQUE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION (Mellen), US IMPERIALISM AND REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES (Palgrave), IN THE WAKE OF TERROR (Lexington); CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS: FROM JOYCE AND IBSEN TO PEIRCE AND KINGSTON (Lambert, Saarbrucken, Germany); and BETWEEN EMPIRE AND INSURGENCY: THE PHILIPPINES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM (University of the Philippines Press). His latest books of poetry in Filipino are ULIKBA (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House) and KUNDIMAN SA GITNA NG KARIMLAN (Universithy of the Philippines Press). He will be a professorial lecturer in Spring 2015 at the Ateneo de Manila University, Polytechnic University of the Philippnes, and the University of the Philippines.
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