Philippine studies and American studies at the centennial threshold: Comparative perspectives

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature, Department of

Document Type

Archival Material/Manuscript

Publication Date

8-16-1996

Abstract

This presentation will examine some of the current trends in both American and Philippine studies, and how academic debates on both sides of the Pacific compare to the other. In both countries, current debates have intensified over the nature and use of history/historiography, the factors influencing historiography as politically motivated discourse, with the concomitant issue of cultural/political/economic imperialism. Yet these debates largely go on in isolation on either side of the Pacific, although the US and the Philippine may pose each other as the silent other of its historiographical discourse. This presentation will examine some major venues for such academic debates (the Internet in the US; the major national newspapers in the Philippines) and examine how two subjects converge in the Philippine' current centennial commemorations

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Disciplines

Political Science

Keywords

Philippines—Study and teaching; United States—Study and teaching

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