A compelling account of the consequences of American colonialism in the Philippines through critical and visual art essays.
Angel Velasco Shaw is a film and video maker and teaches in the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program at New York University. Luis H. Francia's many books include Flippin': Filipinos on America, Eye of the Fish and Brown River, White Ocean.
"An extraordinary collection of literary, artistic, and historical
work which fills the huge gap in what Americans know about their
nation's relationship to the Philippines, in war and peace."
*Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United
States*
"[An] undercurrent of urgency is still true today and it runs
through the pages of this anthology, brilliantly organized by Shaw
and Francia. It is truly an anthology that "breathes." And I too
hope that Vestiges of War will inspire others to engage in similar
projects and expand on what the editors have initiated."
*American Studies International*
"It is the rich variety of sources, the many ways of expressing the
dilemma and duality of the "special relationship," that is the
strength in this volume."
*H-Net*
"Through forceful poems, archival phots, art, visual essays, plays
and memoirs, three dozen contributors. . .weigh in against the
glossed over or repressed history of the war and its aftermath in
the Philippines. . . . If more textbooks were written like this,
there might be fewer wars."
*The Japan Times*
"The collection illuminates Filipinos' long and complicated
relationship with the United States through the successive
tragedies of paleo-, neo-, and postcolonialism."
*The Journal of American History*
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