Vestiges of War : The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999

by Shaw, Angel Velasco; Francia, Luis H.; New York University Asian; Pacific; American Studies Program and Institute

• ISBN13: 9780814797914
• ISBN10: 0814797911
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

U.S. intervention in the Philippines began with the little-known 1899 Philippine-American War. Using the war as its departure point in analyzing U.S.-Philippine relations,Vestiges of Warretrieves this willfully forgotten event and places it where it properly belongs-as the catalyst that led to increasing U.S. interventionism and expansionism in the Asia Pacific region. This seminal, multidisciplinary anthology examines the official American nationalist story of "benevolent assimilation" and fraternal tutelage in its half century of colonial occupation of the Philippines.Integrating critical and visual art essays, archival and contemporary photographs, dramatic plays, and poetry to address the complex Philippine and U.S. perspectives and experiences, the essayists compellingly recount the consequences of American colonialism in the Philippines.Vestiges of Warwill force readers to reshape their views on what has been a deliberately obscure but significant phase in the histories of both countries, one which continues to haunt the present.Contributors include: Genara Banzon, Santiago Bose, Ben Cabrera, Renato Constantino, Doreen Fernandez, Eric Gamalinda, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jessica Hagedorn, Reynaldo Ileto, Yong Soon Min, Manuel Ocampo, Paul Pfeiffer, Christina Quisumbing, Vicente Rafael, Daniel Boone Schirmer, Kidlat Tahimik, Mark Twain, and Jim Zwick.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Exquisite Betrayal	ix
Angel Velasco Shaw
Excised from the Rind of Things	xxi
Luis H. Francia
The Object of Colonial Desire
A Philippine History Lesson	2	(1)
Alfrredo Navarro Salanga
The Philippine-American War: Friendship and Forgetting	3	(19)
Reynaldo C. Ileto
Uneasy Observers: Germans and the Philippine-American War	22	(16)
Wigan Salazar
Mark Twain's Anti-Imperialist Writings in the ``American Century''	38	(19)
Jim Zwick
To the Person Sitting In Darkness	57	(12)
Mark Twain
Visual Essay: Philippine Photo Album	69	(4)
Bencab
Visual Essay: Daantaon/A Century	73	(4)
Antipas Delotavo
Visual Essay: The Testament of the Motherland or Panahon ng Mga Amerikano/American Period	77	(4)
Brenda Fajardo
The Hills Are Still There	81	(7)
Resil Mojares
Body Count: The War and Its Consequences
4 February	88	(1)
Alfrredo Navarro Salanga
An American Colonial State: Authority and Structure in Southern Mindanao	89	(29)
Patricio Abinales
Fagen and Other Ghosts: African-Americans and the Philippine-American War	118	(16)
Rene G. Ontal
Casualty Figures of the American Soldier and the Other: Post-1898 Allegories of Imperial Nation-Building as ``Love and War''	134	(29)
Oscar V. Campomanes
Racism and Intervention in the Third World, Past and Present	163	(14)
Daniel Boone Schirmer
The Miseducation of the Filipino	177	(16)
Renato Constantino
From Colonizer to Liberator: How U.S. Colonialism Succeeded in Reinventing Itself After the Pacific War	193	(13)
Bienvenido Lumbera
Looking the Other Way: The Cultural Fallout
5 February	206	(1)
Alfrredo Navarro Salanga
Baguio Between Two Wars: The Creation and Destruction of a Summer Capital	207	(17)
Erlyn Ruth Alcantara
Imperialist Fictions: The Filipino in the Imperialist Imaginary	224	(13)
Nick Deocampo
Food and War	237	(10)
Doreen G. Fernandez
English Is Your Mother Tongue/Ang Ingles Ay ang Tongue ng Ina Mo	247	(13)
Eric Gamalinda
Baguio Graffiti	260	(8)
Santiago Bose
Visual Essay: Pagmulat/Awakening	268	(3)
Genara Banzon
Visual Essay: Lumayo Kayo at Magparami/Go Forth and Mulitply	271	(5)
Alwin Reamillo
View from the Diaspora
10 February and 16 February	276	(2)
Alfrredo Navarro Salanga
Quod Nomen Mihi Est? Excerpts From a Conversation With Satan	278	(12)
Paul Pfeiffer
Kindred Distance	290	(12)
Yong Soon Min
The Hairy Hand	302	(10)
Nguyen Qui Duc
Notes From the Other Cartography	312	(6)
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Poppy's House: History, Pop Culture, and the Reevaluation of a Filipino-American ``Sixty-Cents'' in Guam	318	(11)
Vicente Diaz
Visual Essay: Home Is Where You Are	329	(4)
Emilio Ganot
Scenes From the Play, Dogeaters	333	(14)
Jessica Hagedorn
Five Poems	347	(6)
Luis H. Francia
Dust Memories	353	(7)
Dionisio Velasco
The Past Meets the Present
20 February	360	(1)
Alfrredo Navarro Salanga
Parricides, Bastards and Counterrevolution: Refections on the Philippine Centennial	361	(15)
Vicente L. Rafael
An Open Wound: Colonial Melancholia and Contemporary Filipino/American Texts	376	(25)
Sarita Echavez See
Excerpts from Umbilical Cord	401	(20)
Angel Velasco Shaw
Visual Essay: Maidens in the Philippines	421	(4)
Christina Quisumbing Ramilo
Visual Essay: Colonizado	425	(4)
Mariano Del Rosario
Visual Essay: Manananggal, No Es Una Virgen	429	(4)
Manuel Ocampo
Visual Essay: The Labyrinth	433	(4)
Roberto Villanueva
Afterword: The Secret Archives	437	(5)
John Kuo Wei Tchen
Acknowledgments	442	(2)
Photography Credits	444	(3)
About the Contributors	447	(7)
Index	454