Description
More Postcolonial Than We Admit 1
Producing the Filipino After 1946
Edited by CHARLIE SAMUYA VERIC
Part of a two-volume anthology, More Postcolonial Than We Admit 1: Producing the Filipino After 1946 reconstructs the cultural and intellectual forms of Filipino postcolonial history after the US grant of independence to the Philippines. Covering the period from the founding of the postcolony in 1946 to the fall of the first Marcos regime in 1986, this volume accounts for the impact of US political, economic, and cultural hegemony on Filipino affairs. It lays bare how our intellectuals respond to the question of American influence, on the one hand, and decolonization, on the other hand.
The anthology demonstrates the confluences and contradictions of the dual force of US neocolonial capture and Philippine postcolonial emergence. By showing the full gamut of the historical development of Filipino postcolonial thought from the Cold War, to the reconsolidation of nationalism, to the imposition of authoritarianism, to the eventual fall of the Marcos regime, it describes the decisive turns in the cultural life of the postcolony and the intellectual growth of our key thinkers.
In doing so, the anthology delineates the substance and spirit of the postcolonial Filipino in the first forty years of the modern Philippine republic.
REVIEW:
“The narrative arc framing the perceptive essays in the anthology provides a fruitful path for rethinking a range of decolonizing efforts of Filipino scholars and writers in the context of particular historical junctures. The diverse forms of writing, critiques, and methods constituting the discourse of Filipino postcolonial history gesture toward shifts in cultural engagements with politics. More Postcolonial Than We Admit 1: Producing the Filipino After 1946 is a must-read as it bears upon questions of identity, history, and culture. Charlie Samuya Veric has chosen works that enable readers to make sense of the tensions that shape contemporary postcoloniality.”
— Ruth Jordana, PhD
Professor, University of the Philippines–Diliman
“A monumental and indispensable intellectual undertaking.”
— Ramon Guillermo, PhD
Professor, University of the Philippines–Diliman
Publisher: Vibal Foundation, Inc.
Imprint: Academica Filipina+
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Number of pages: 320
Available: Softbound
Copyright: 2025
About the Editor:
Charlie Samuya Veric is an intellectual historian, self-taught poet, and independent curator. Veric is the author of Children of the Postcolony: Filipino Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1946–1972 (2020). He is the editor of critical anthologies on Amado V. Hernandez, Bienvenido Lumbera, and E. San Juan Jr. A bestselling and critically acclaimed poet, he has five poetry collections to his name. He was a fellow of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study in 2018 and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in 2023. The first Filipino to earn a doctorate in American Studies from Yale University, where he was awarded the John Hay Whitney Fellowship, he is currently the vice chair of the Humanities Division of the National Research Council of the Philippines and the founding director of the Literary and Cultural Studies Program at the Ateneo de Manila University. He is finishing a book manuscript, titled Forging the Postcolony: Cultural Cold War and the Rise of Philippine Studies, 1898–1968.