Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

by Martin Joseph Ponce

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814768067
• ISBN13: 9780814768068
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"