The Work of Mothering ：Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora ( Asian American Experience )

Publication subTitle ：Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora

Publication series ： Asian American Experience

Author： Harrod J Suarez  

Publisher： University of Illinois Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9780252050046

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252041440

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780252082962

Subject： C0 Social Science Theory and Methodology

Keyword： 社会科学理论与方法论

Language： ENG

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Women make up a majority of the Filipino workforce laboring overseas. Their frequent employment in nurturing, maternal jobs--nanny, maid, caretaker, nurse--has found expression in a significant but understudied body of Filipino and Filipino American literature and cinema. Harrod J. Suarez's innovative readings of this cultural production explores issues of diaspora, gender, and labor. He details the ways literature and cinema play critical roles in encountering, addressing, and problematizing what we think we know about overseas Filipina workers. Though often seen as compliant subjects, the Filipina mother can also destabilize knowledge production that serves the interests of global empire, capitalism, and Philippine nationalism. Suarez examines canonical writers like Nick Joaquín, Carlos Bulosan, and Jessica Hagedorn to explore this disruption and understand the maternal specificity of the construction of overseas Filipina workers. The result is readings that develop new ways of thinking through diasporic maternal labor that engages with the sociological imaginary.

Chapter

Cover

Title

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction

1. Excessive Writing and Filipina Time

2. Filming the Dream Nevertheless

3. Listening to Cinematic Orphans

4. Multicultural Belonging and a Potent Silence

Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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