John Blanco has published Frontier Constitutions, a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by the Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the crisis of colonial hegemony in the nineteenth century, and the social anomie that resulted from this crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco argues that modernity in the colonial Philippines should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of contradictions—expressions that sanctioned new political communities formed around the precariousness of Spanish rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize these contradictions as they attempted to secure the colonial order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine independence.
Rosemary Marangoly George has published British Imperialism and US Multiculturalism: The Americanization of Burnett's A Little Princess, Children's Literature V. 37, 2009: 137-164.

 

Milos Kokotovic is co-editor  with Cristine Hunefeldt of the new volume Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes, Sussex Academic Press, United Kingdom (February 2009).

Lisa Lowe, Autobiography Out of EmpireSmall Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 28 (March 2009): 98-111.  A special issue edited by Saidiya Hartman and Tina Campt, A Future Beyond Empire, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Hazel Carby's Reconstructing Womanhood:  The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist.  

Masau Miyoshi has published three new works:


Teiko no ba e [Sites of Resistance]: Interviews with Masao Miyoshi. (transcribed and translated into Japanese by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto). Kyoto: Rakuhoku Shuppan, 2007.

 

this is not here: Selected Photographs by Masao Miyoshi. Los Angeles: Highmoonoon, 2009.

 

Trespasses: Selected Writings of Masao Miyoshi. (ed. Eric Cazdyn with preface by Fredric Jameson). Durham: Duke University Press, 2009, forthcoming.

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