Learning from the Filipino Diaspora: Lessons of Resistance and Critical Intervention by E. San Juan, Jr.

E. San Juan is one of the sharpest and most clarifying voices vis-a-vis Filipino/US and Filipino/world relationships extant. He is an internationalist and political analyst of high morale. It ís about time his incisive theoretical summations are given broader access to strengthen the growing understanding of the multicultural united front of progressive thinkers around the world.

—AMIRI BARAKA

E. San Juan is a scholar of remarkable range and varied talents remarkable for his commitment to literature and culture as vital areas of contemporary social life.

—FREDRIC JAMESON, Duke University

E. San Juan is one of the world’s most distinguished progressive critics. He is certainly the world’s leading scholar and critic of Filipino literature and undoubtedly the leading authority on Filipino-American literary relations.

—BRUCE FRANKLIN, Rutgers University

E. San Juan’s intervention in the current debates on cultural studies is both necessary and significant. We can all learn valuable lessons from the Philippine experience.

—-NGUGI WA THIONGíO, Kenyan novelist