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Carlos Bulosan-Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States attempts an in-depth critical evaluation of the major works in the context of the sociopolitical changes that configured the writer´s sensibility during the Depression, the united-front mobilization prior to World War II, and the Cold War witch-hunting of the fifties.

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Carlos Bulosan-Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States: A Critical Appraisal is an in-depth, critical evaluation of Bulosan´s major works in the context of the sociopolitical changes that configured his sensibility during the Depression, the united-front mobilization prior to World War II, and the Cold War witch-hunting of the fifties. Unprecedented for its thorough historical-materialist analysis of the symbolic dynamics of the texts, this book uses original research into the Sanora Babb papers that have never before been linked to Bulosan. Sophisticated dialectical analysis of the complex contradictions in Bulosan´s life is combined with a politico-ethical reading of U.S.-Philippines relations. San Juan takes the unorthodox view that Bulosan´s career was not an immigrant success story but instead a subversive project of an organic intellectual of a colonized nation-in-the-making. Today, Bulosan is hailed as a revolutionary Filipino writer, unparalleled in the racialized, conflicted history of the Philippines as a colony/dependency of the United States. This book follows San Juan´s pioneering 1972 study Carlos Bulosan and the Imagination of the Class Struggle .

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Acknowledgments - Foreword - Introduction - Passages from Exile: Inventory and Critique - Parallel Lives: Ordeals of Initiation and Discovery - Dialectical Mediations: Between Crisis and Emergency - Excavating the Ruins, Foreshadowing Rebirths - Memory, Dreams, History: Divining the Homeland of Revolution - References.

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"E. San Juan is arguably one of the most important intellectuals of our times. There are few scholars today who are able to capture with such rigor and verve the historically heterogeneous and discontinuous relations of exploitation, domination and conflict constitutive of today´s social existence in the global arena of neoliberal capitalism and the system of wage labor. Part of San Juan´s remarkable contribution to our understanding of contemporary social life is his profound grasp of critical social theory and his employment of historical materialist critique to reveal both the limitations and folly of much of what passes today as postmodern and postcolonial studies. San Juan has been hailed as a vital public intellectual by Amiri Baraka, Michael Denning, Bertell Ollman, Bruce Franklin, Alan Wald, Fredric Jameson, and other prestigious scholars."-PETER MCLAREN, UCLA

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