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- Juan Luna's Revolver
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
The poems in Juan Luna' s Revolver both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora. Attending to the legacy of colonial and postcolonial encounters, Luisa A. Igloria has crafted poems that create links of sympathetic human understanding, even as they revisit difficult histories and pose necessary questions about place, power, displacement, nostalgia, beauty, and human resilience in conditions of alienation and duress. Igloria traces journeys made by Filipinos in the global diaspora that began since the encounter with European and American colonial power. Her poems allude to historical figures such as the Filipino painter Juan Luna and the novelist and national hero José Rizal, as well as the eleven hundred indigenous Filipinos brought to serve as live exhibits in the 1904 Missouri World’s Fair. The image of the revolver fired by Juan Luna reverberates throughout the collection, raising to high relief how separation and exile have shaped concepts of identity, nationality, and possibility. Suffused with gorgeous imagery and nuanced emotion, Igloria’s poetry achieves an intimacy fostered by gem-like phrases set within a politically-charged context speaking both to the personal and the collective.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. ix-x
- I. INDIOS BRAVOS
- pp. 5-32
- INVOCATION
- p. 6
- DECODING THE SIGNATURE
- pp. 12-13
- IN THE CLOTHING ARCHIVE
- pp. 14-15
- LETRAS Y FIGURAS
- pp. 16-18
- JUAN LUNA’S REVOLVER
- pp. 19-21
- AUIT / SONG
- pp. 25-26
- DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA
- pp. 27-28
- BLACK ELK IN PARIS
- pp. 31-32
- II. THE CLEAR BONES
- pp. 33-52
- THE CLEAR BONES
- pp. 35-36
- TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES
- pp. 43-44
- IRREVERSIBLES
- pp. 45-46
- MISSION REPORT
- pp. 47-48
- INTERREGNUM
- pp. 49-50
- ARCHIPELAGO
- pp. 51-52
- LYRICA OBSCURA
- p. 56
- PROVISIONAL
- pp. 58-59
- THE KITCHEN GIRL’S JOURNAL
- pp. 60-61
- LA AMERICANA
- pp. 62-63
- KOKEN’S BARBERSHOP
- p. 64
- AUIT / SONG
- p. 66
- MARINE LAYER
- p. 69
- YOUR HAND IN MY SIDE
- pp. 72-75
- IV. POSTCARDS FROM THE WHITE CITY
- POSTCARDS FROM THE WHITE CITY
- pp. 83-88
- HILL STATION
- pp. 90-92
- WHITE NIGHTS
- p. 97
- LUISA A. IGLORIA
- p. 99
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268082635
Related ISBN(s)
9780268031787
MARC Record
OCLC
694145911
Pages
112
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No