Description: This book offers a radical, "Third World" approach to current debates on canon revision, multiculturalism, Eurocentrism, and reforms in education and culture.
Brief description: E. San Juan Jr. is Director of the Philippines Cultural Center in Storrs, Connecticut. He is the author of more than sixty books, including Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, also published by SUNY Press; From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States; and In the Wake of Terror: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the Postmodern World.
Review Quotes:
"This is a brilliant and unique intervention into a host of major and knotty contemporary debates in literary criticism. In particular, it is refreshing and inspiring to see the uncompromising anti-racism and anti-Eurocentrism of these studies combined with a sophisticated outlook and understanding of cultural production in the mid-late twentieth century. I am simply not aware of any other scholar working in the United States who has such an extraordinary range and depth of understanding on these matters." -- Alan Wald, The University of Michigan, editor of Against the Current
"This book is a truly astonishing performance. By his comprehensive understanding of literature within material history and his mapping of alternatives, San Juan opens a vista into the future of literature and criticism." -- James R. Bennett, Director, Gustavus Myers Center, The University of Arkansas