E. San Juan, Jr. directs the Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Connecticut, and also serves as co-director of the board of the Philippine Forum, New York City. Among his recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory, Racism and Cultural Studies, and Working Through the Contradictions.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Symbolic Trajectories of the Asian DiasporaChapter 3 Historicizing the Space of Asian AmericaChapter 4 Specters of United States ImperialismChapter 5 From Neocolonial Representations to National-Democratic AllegoryChapter 6 Displacing Borders of Misrecognition: On Jessica Hagedorn's FictionsChapter 7 Kidlat Tahimik's Cinema of the Naïve SubalternChapter 8 Prospects and Problems of Revolutionary TransformationChapter 9 AfterwordChapter 10 Appendix: Writing and the Asian Diaspora

With his usual hardhitting candor and penetrating insight, E. San Juan, Jr., invites readers to join him in a post-postcolonial interrogation of the Philippine 'problematique' within the context of both American imperialism studies and Asian American studies. To be sure, The Filipino in the United States is a concrete historical phenomenon, but becoming Filipino in the Diaspora continues to be a process of dialectical struggle.

E. San Juan, Jr. directs the Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Connecticut, and also serves as co-director of the board of the Philippine Forum, New York City. Among his recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory, Racism and Cultural Studies, and Working Through the Contradictions.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Symbolic Trajectories of the Asian DiasporaChapter 3 Historicizing the Space of Asian AmericaChapter 4 Specters of United States ImperialismChapter 5 From Neocolonial Representations to National-Democratic AllegoryChapter 6 Displacing Borders of Misrecognition: On Jessica Hagedorn's FictionsChapter 7 Kidlat Tahimik's Cinema of the Naïve SubalternChapter 8 Prospects and Problems of Revolutionary TransformationChapter 9 AfterwordChapter 10 Appendix: Writing and the Asian Diaspora

With his usual hardhitting candor and penetrating insight, E. San Juan, Jr., invites readers to join him in a post-postcolonial interrogation of the Philippine 'problematique' within the context of both American imperialism studies and Asian American studies. To be sure, The Filipino in the United States is a concrete historical phenomenon, but becoming Filipino in the Diaspora continues to be a process of dialectical struggle.

E. San Juan, Jr. directs the Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Connecticut, and also serves as co-director of the board of the Philippine Forum, New York City. Among his recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory, Racism and Cultural Studies, and Working Through the Contradictions.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Symbolic Trajectories of the Asian DiasporaChapter 3 Historicizing the Space of Asian AmericaChapter 4 Specters of United States ImperialismChapter 5 From Neocolonial Representations to National-Democratic AllegoryChapter 6 Displacing Borders of Misrecognition: On Jessica Hagedorn's FictionsChapter 7 Kidlat Tahimik's Cinema of the Naïve SubalternChapter 8 Prospects and Problems of Revolutionary TransformationChapter 9 AfterwordChapter 10 Appendix: Writing and the Asian Diaspora

With his usual hardhitting candor and penetrating insight, E. San Juan, Jr., invites readers to join him in a post-postcolonial interrogation of the Philippine 'problematique' within the context of both American imperialism studies and Asian American studies. To be sure, The Filipino in the United States is a concrete historical phenomenon, but becoming Filipino in the Diaspora continues to be a process of dialectical struggle.