Philippine studies and American studies at the centennial threshold: Comparative perspectives

• Main Author: Delmendo, Sharon
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 1996
• Subjects: Philippines—Study and teaching; United States—Study and teaching; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6474
• Institution: De La Salle University

This presentation will examine some of the current trends in both American and Philippine studies, and how academic debates on both sides of the Pacific compare to the other. In both countries, current debates have intensified over the nature and use of history/historiography, the factors influencing historiography as politically motivated discourse, with the concomitant issue of cultural/political/economic imperialism. Yet these debates largely go on in isolation on either side of the Pacific, although the US and the Philippine may pose each other as the silent other of its historiographical discourse. This presentation will examine some major venues for such academic debates (the Internet in the US; the major national newspapers in the Philippines) and examine how two subjects converge in the Philippine' current centennial commemorations