Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals

by Augusto Espiritu and Augusto Fauni Espiritu

Book Overview

Colonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More specifically, it explores American empire in the Philippines and its ethnic and racial dimensions in the United States through a close reading of the texts and social practices of five pioneering,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080475120X
• ISBN13: 9780804751209
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.4"