Veric, Charlie S.

Children of the postcolony : Filipino intellectuals and decolonization, 1946-1972 / Filipino intellectuals and decolonization, 1946-1972 Charlie Samuya Veric ; interior art by Gerecho Iniel Cruz. - Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c2020. - 240 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. -- Chapter 1 : In search of poetic form. -- Chapter 2 : Modern art and its institutions. -- Chapter 3 : The native tradition. -- Chapter 4 : Vernacular internationalism. -- Chapter 5 : The world system of decolonization. -- Author's note. -- Notes. -- Bibliography. -- Index.

Writing against historical forgetting, Charlie Samuya Veric reconstructs the foundations of Filipino postcolonial thought following Philippine independence from the United States in 1946.


In English.

978-971-550-982-4

2020324374


Decolonization--Philippines.
Postcolonialism--Philippines.


Philippines--Intellectual life--20th century.
Philippines--Politics and government--1946-1973.

DS 686.5 V47 2020