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- Title
Postcolonial Fissures and the Contingent Nation.
- Authors
CLAUDIO, LISANDRO E.
- Abstract
This article examines instances in Philippine historiography where nationalism, as a unitary end, has been used to elide and obscure class difference. It begins with a partial explanation of the lacunae in antinationalist thinking in the Philippines, and then proceeds to a critique of contemporary nationalist historiography. Using historians Zeus Salazar and Reynaldo Ileto as case studies, it examines how nationalist historiography can serve as means to implicitly justify localized acts of class oppression. The works of these scholars, while crucial in forwarding critiques of colonialism and neocolonialism, privilege nationalist unity over thorough examinations of disjunctures produced by class difference.
- Subjects
PHILIPPINES; HISTORIOGRAPHY; PHILIPPINE politics &; government; NATIONALISM; ILETO, Reynaldo C.; SALAZAR, Zeus A.; MARCOS, Ferdinand E. (Ferdinand Edralin), 1917-1989; HISTORY of revolutions; SOCIAL classes -- History; HISTORY
- Publication
Philippine Studies: Historical & Ethnographic Viewpoints, 2013, Vol 61, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
2244-1093
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1353/phs.2013.0000