Always Moving Toward Justice

This review-essay discovers in the poems of E. San Juan, Jr. an evolving and passionate engagement with exile and hope. To be an exile, especially a Filipino exile, is not to be a tourist, idly consuming and colonizing, but to absorb languages and histories that console and inspire. Drawn from the l...

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Main Author: Streamas, John
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss11/16
https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1153/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n11_2008_5D_203.3_Special_BalikbayangMahal_Streamas.pdf
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.kk-11532024-12-15T15:24:02Z Always Moving Toward Justice Streamas, John This review-essay discovers in the poems of E. San Juan, Jr. an evolving and passionate engagement with exile and hope. To be an exile, especially a Filipino exile, is not to be a tourist, idly consuming and colonizing, but to absorb languages and histories that console and inspire. Drawn from the lessons of decades of exile, the poems and the concluding essay confront injustice—the ways, for instance, in which oppressors colonize even time and space—and also envision a future when revolution replaces rootlessness, when migrants come home. 2024-12-16T08:20:12Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss11/16 info:doi/10.13185/1656-152x.1153 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1153/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n11_2008_5D_203.3_Special_BalikbayangMahal_Streamas.pdf Kritika Kultura Archīum Ateneo Balikbayang Mahal E. San Juan Jr. exile history hope space revolution time
institution Ateneo De Manila University
building Ateneo De Manila University Library
continent Asia
country Philippines
Philippines
content_provider Ateneo De Manila University Library
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topic Balikbayang Mahal
E. San Juan
Jr.
exile
history
hope
space
revolution
time
spellingShingle Balikbayang Mahal
E. San Juan
Jr.
exile
history
hope
space
revolution
time
Streamas, John
Always Moving Toward Justice
description This review-essay discovers in the poems of E. San Juan, Jr. an evolving and passionate engagement with exile and hope. To be an exile, especially a Filipino exile, is not to be a tourist, idly consuming and colonizing, but to absorb languages and histories that console and inspire. Drawn from the lessons of decades of exile, the poems and the concluding essay confront injustice—the ways, for instance, in which oppressors colonize even time and space—and also envision a future when revolution replaces rootlessness, when migrants come home.
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publisher Archīum Ateneo
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url https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss11/16
https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1153/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n11_2008_5D_203.3_Special_BalikbayangMahal_Streamas.pdf
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