Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization

by Neferti Xina M. Tadiar

Book Overview

In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation's writers and poets in that process. Through close readings of poems, short stories, and novels brought into conversation with scholarship in anthropology, sociology, politics, and economics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344467
• ISBN13: 9780822344469
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"