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Some Are Smarter Than Others irrefutably exposed the political and economic infrastructure of plunder supporting the Marcos dictatorship. Yet these are now denied and the unrepentant Marcoses in their manipulation of current politics have led the country again to Martial Law (in Mindanao) and to appalling impunity.

This book introduces the reader to the Philippine art market, specifically its primary and secondary sectors. Specific components of both sectors are discussed, such as art galleries, art fairs, and auction houses, which have been generating shock waves with the staggering prices that a number of art pieces have fetched in auctions in recent years. The book is mostly descriptive rather than analytical as it means more to apprise, not appraise. Personal experiences of the author as collector, researcher, and briefly as art gallery co-owner and adviser to a fledgling collector serve as basis for the discussion, coupled with media reports and writings of scholars who have analyzed the art market in other countries. It turns out that many (but not all) findings by foreign studies seem to hold true for the Philippine setting, and there are crucial lessons especially for those who treat artworks mainly as investment instruments.

Set in a time of dictatorship and political upheaval, The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. Their passion threatens to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their father stood for.

The sixteen personal essays in this collection are expressions of undying hope, consisting of diverse, moving emotions and spontaneous, deeply honest reflections. Inspired by faith and powered by filial love, the young Japanese-Filipino writers recount their journeys and struggles without the burden of anger or bitterness.

Presents two long essays on Jose Rizal and his writings. The essays are both concerned with interpretation and its role not only in imagining Rizal, but also in making, unmaking, and remaking community.

A collection of stories about women and the complicated spaces they inhabit, whether these be in a reimagined ancient Philippines, or in futures where reality and cyberscapes have merged. The author explores themes of heroism and villainy, and how women can be both, or neither, in their own narratives.

Addresses the question of how women married to seafarers are shaped by migration and how they in turn shape migration. Looking at subjectivity as social becoming, this book examines how Ilokano, Philippine, and global historical and economic processes have shaped the women's lives and experiences.

A posthumous response to his classic America Is in the Heart, this collection of original, hitherto unpublished stories by Carlos Bulosan reveals the innovative, radical intellect sublimated in his comic masterpiece, The Laughter of My Father.

Set in an unnamed town bordered by mountains and sea, Boyhood reconstructs a vanished time of awakening and discovery. It conveys the emotional force of a forgotten place, telling the tales in lyric fragments conceived as notes on the river and bridge, the slaughterhouse, the airport, the island cosmogony, the market, the neighbourhood, the meeting tree, the plaza, the cemetery.

This book shows us how to think about the American century in the Philippines in another way. Colonial representations of the revolution and resistance to U.S. occupation have been contested quite effectively. But the bigger challenge, or rather pressing task, is to interrogate some basic notions that undergird our understanding of Philippine politics--notions that owe their provenance to early attempts by U.S. officials and scholars to pacify the enemy.

Informal and unregulated economic activities remain an important feature of Mindanao's economy. This study, which represents the first attempt to incorporate the informal economy into the broader analysis of the region, argues that one cannot comprehend Mindanao's political and economic challenges, let alone address them, unless these shadow economies are scrutinized further.

Father James Aloysius O'Donnell, S.J., brings a wealth of experience to this book, having worked with Philippine schools for more than 50 years. He is well known to many educators for his popular workshops on classroom supervision which he has preserved in this book, now in its sixth edition.

Explores embodied narratives in which the connections between religion and nationalism, globality and locality, tourism and politics are drawn. Emphasizing the Philippines, the essays demonstrate how religious festivals are windows into the identity of their observers as well as their participants.

Collects Rosario de Guzman-Lingat's short stories chosen for the various ways they explore the female experience in all its complexity. They feature women as protagonists who, despite life's numerous blows, refuse to give in, as they strive mightily to make sense of their lives fraught with difficulties.

Around 1910, three Dutch intellectuals separately visited Manila. Feminist doctor Aletta Jacobs, orientalist scholar Gerret Rouffaer, and ethnologist Hendrik Muller were all curious to see how the Americans were implementing their colonial policy of "benevolent assimilation." In this book their reports are for the first time made available, adding to the social history of the city and the country.

Offers a theological reflection on the praxis of struggle for human and ecological liberation. It critically appropriates the framework of the emerging ecological theology of liberation, which expands the notion of the preferential option for the poor - privileging those who suffer from class oppression, racial discrimination, sexist ideologies, and ecological exploitation.

Shows how rebels who surrendered their arms in exchange for formal authority were unable to compete with powerful clans and local elites who provided basic security; captured increasing amounts of internal revenue allotments under a regime of devolution; and enabled the spread of a shadow economy that boosted their power and allowed citizens to secure their livelihoods with little taxation.

Between these covers are the best short stories of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and genres in-between, selected from the first five years of the Philippines Speculative Fiction annuals. Step through the portal and explore worlds old and new and experience the power of literature of the imagination as crafted by Filipino authors.

This book, together with Upon Our Own Ground (2008) and Underground Spirit (2010), completes the six-volume historical anthology series on Filipino short stories from 1956 to 2008. The Introduction offers an overview of Filipino short fiction from 1925 to the present.

These essays are conveniently arranged from general to specific issues of the Mindanao conflict and the central relevance of the Muslim South to the problem.

Presents a collection of the entire corpus of Jose Garcia Villa's short stories. Through all the stories in light of that assessment, we see how Villa as fictionist gained his critical acumen in the art of fiction whereby as its critic he cleared the ground for its maturity in the development of Philippine fiction.

Jose Garcia Villa, a twentieth century Philippine phenomenon, took by storm the Filipino and American literary establishments, winning wide acclaim for short stories and poems in English. Turning to poetics - what poetry is and does - he lectured at his Greenwich Village workshops. Editor Robert King has restored these lectures from Villa's theory of poetry notebooks at Harvard's Houghton Library.

Explores various aspects of late nineteenth-century Philippine society in an effort to locate the major "arenas of conspiracy and rebellion", especially in the 1890s. While the analytical focus is on the 1898 anti-Spanish rebellion in Cebu City, the study is intended to draw attention to these changes and developments as they impacted the entire archipelago.

The first comprehensive history of European studies on Philippine languages, this book gives a synoptic view of studies by Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish linguists from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, placing them in their historical context. It opens up a new field of research in Philippine studies on previously unknown materials in European libraries and archives.

The Filipino diaspora is at least four hundred years old. For two-and-a-half centuries, Filipinos by the hundreds traveled yearly to Mexico and the Americas, with many electing to stay and find a new life. This book attempts to answer the question often asked: What happened to those Filipinos who started the diaspora?

"The columns are superior specimens of opinion journalism, the language urbane but always lucid. The learned references are always apropos and certain to be appreciated by city dwellers but perhaps out of reach of non-humanities majors. The views are unmistakably Left but they are worded so lightly as to be acceptable to literate middle-class readers." --Bienvenido Lumbera, National Artist for Literature

Hidalgo's travel essays owe much to and have the intimate qualities of memoirs, diaries and personal narratives."" - Roel Hoang Manipon