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Beyond the Nation

Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process. Beyond the Nation considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. Ponce elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, Ponce proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.
Contents Introduction 1 1The Romantic Didactics of Maximo Kalaw's Nationalism 29 2The Queer Erotics of Jose Garcia Villa's Modernism 58 3The Sexual Politics of Carlos Bulosan's Radicalism 89 4The Cross-Cultural Musics of Jessica Hagedorn's Postmodernism 120 5The Diasporic Poetics of Queer Martial Law Literature 153 6The Transpacific Tactics of Contemporary Filipino American Literature 184 Epilogue 221 Acknowledgments 233 Notes 237 Index 279 About the Author 289
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