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Few readers know how the U.S.-Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines inflicted torture and death with impunity on millions. Citizens became desaparesidos, to use the Latin-American term. In the Philippines, the victims were “salvaged,” kidnapped and killed. This semantic change epitomizes the experience of colonized/neocolonized subjects since the bloody pacification of the islands in the 1899–1913 Filipino-American War. The usual meaning of “salvage,” as rescue of selected relics from history’s slaughterhouse, is restored here.
In this book E. San Juan, Jr. reviews the dialectical process in postmodern art and symbolic expressions of the Cold War and analyzes the contradictions of re-neoliberal globalization and the retooled “salvaging” in the Duterte-Marcos regime today.
Neocolonialism and decolonization mutually inform the discussion of Filipino indigenization with the emergence of sikolohiyang Filipino—an original construction.
In this book E. San Juan, Jr. reviews the dialectical process in postmodern art and symbolic expressions of the Cold War and analyzes the contradictions of re-neoliberal globalization and the retooled “salvaging” in the Duterte-Marcos regime today.
Neocolonialism and decolonization mutually inform the discussion of Filipino indigenization with the emergence of sikolohiyang Filipino—an original construction.
Price: $135.00
Pages: 238
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
Publication Date:
21 May 2026
ISBN: 9789004751323
Format: Hardcover
E. San Juan, Jr., Ph.D. (1965), Harvard University, is Emeritus Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut. He was previously a fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, and Fulbright Professor of American Studies, KU Leuven University. He has taught at Washington State University, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York (CUNY), Bowling Green State University, and the University of the Philippines. His recent publications include The Subversive Reader (Vibal, 2023), Peirce’s Pragmaticism: A Radical Perspective (Lexington, 2022), and Recognizing Apolinario Mabini (University of the Philippines Press, 2024).