Children of the Postcolony: Filipino Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1946-1972

• Main Author: Veric, Charlie Samuya
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Philippine Studies; Area Studies; Cultural Criticism; English Language and Literature; History; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/146; http://www.ateneo.edu/ateneopress/product/children-postcolony-filipino-intellectuals-and-decolonization-1946-1972
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Writing against historical forgetting; Charlie Samuya Veric reconstructs the foundations of Filipino postcolonial thought following Philippine independence from the United States in 1946. On the one hand; he narrates the rise of postcolonial knowledge after the formal birth of the nation. On the other; he examines the ideas of the first generation of intellectuals who came of age after independence—Edith L. Tiempo; Fernando Zobel; Bienvenido L. Lumbera; E. San Juan; Jr.; and Jose Maria Sison—whose penetrating insights into literary formalism; modern art; vernacular tradition; subaltern internationalism; and mass revolution constitute key cultural archives of postcolonial knowledge production. Original and provocative; Children of the Postcolony illuminates Filipino decolonization and argues for the vitality of its still unrealized dreamworld.