Juan Luna's Revolver
Juan Luna's Revolver

Author: Luisa Igloria

Publisher:

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780268206352

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The poems in Juan Luna' s Revolver both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora. Attending to the legacy of colonial and postcolonial encounters, Luisa A. Igloria has crafted poems that create links of sympathetic human understanding, even as they revisit difficult histories and pose necessary questions about place, power, displacement, nostalgia, beauty, and human resilience in conditions of alienation and duress. Igloria traces journeys made by Filipinos in the global diaspora that began since the encounter with European and American colonial power. Her poems allude to historical figures such as the Filipino painter Juan Luna and the novelist and national hero Jose Rizal, as well as the eleven hundred indigenous Filipinos brought to serve as live exhibits in the 1904 Missouri World's Fair. The image of the revolver fired by Juan Luna reverberates throughout the collection, raising to high relief how separation and exile have shaped concepts of identity, nationality, and possibility. Suffused with gorgeous imagery and nuanced emotion, Igloria's poetry achieves an intimacy fostered by gem-like phrases set within a politically-charged context speaking both to the personal and the collective.

Juan Luna
Juan Luna

Author: Carlos Quirino

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9786214220328

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The riveting life stories of our Philippine heroes can inspire children, students, and the next generation of community leaders. Share your love of history by bringing home Tahanan's award-winning Great Lives Library.-- Publisher's description.

The Resilience of the Latin American Right
The Resilience of the Latin American Right

Author: Juan Pablo Luna

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014-09

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1421413906

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Students and scholars of both Latin American politics and comparative politics will find The Resilience of the Latin American Right of vital interest.

The Brothers Luna
The Brothers Luna

Author: Jules Delgallego

Publisher:

Published: 2013-12-24

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9781494791261

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THE BROTHERS LUNA is a novel based on historical facts intertwined with a compelling story of romance, passion, friendship, intrigue, murder, espionage, war and the arts.Two brothers. One cause. Both willing to die for the freedom of the Philippines from foreign rule. Juan and Antonio Luna find themselves in late 19th century Europe after taking advantage of the Royal Education Decree of 1863, which allowed native Filipinos to be fully educated in the school system across Spain's colonial islands as well as in the major universities of Europe. After attending the Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Juan Luna astonishes the European art scene by garnering numerous gold medals in various highly acclaimed art competitions. Antonio Luna becomes a pharmacist, but passion for reform inspires him to become a propagandist' and later, a general in the army, and the fearless soul of integrity of the Philippine revolutionary forces. In the aftermath of personal tragedy for Juan Luna, the brothers seek a new beginning, but are unknowingly caught in a web of political intrigue and rebellion against Spain's colonial authorities controlled by the powerful Dominican friars. As general, Antonio leads his soldiers into combat against the powerful invading American forces under General Arthur MacArthur. However, deprived of authority by his President, Antonio Luna's fiery temper and fighting spirit result in betrayal and tragedy. Juan Luna vows revenge but falls into a deep depression to a point of sheer madness, and eventually, returns to the Philippines to face his destiny.

Latin American Party Systems
Latin American Party Systems

Author: Herbert Kitschelt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-02-22

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1139483846

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Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic regimes, from the organization of political machines built around clientelistic networks to the establishment of sophisticated programmatic parties. Latin American Party Systems provides a novel theoretical argument to account for differences in the degree to which political party systems in the region were programmatically structured at the end of the twentieth century. Based on a diverse array of indicators and surveys of party legislators and public opinion, the book argues that learning and adaptation through fundamental policy innovations are the main mechanisms by which politicians build programmatic parties. Marshalling extensive evidence, the book's analysis shows the limits of alternative explanations and substantiates a sanguine view of programmatic competition, nevertheless recognizing that this form of party system organization is far from ubiquitous and enduring in Latin America.

Between Worlds
Between Worlds

Author: Russell Storer

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Published in conjunction with "Between worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna", an exhibition organised by National Gallery Singapore.

An Anarchy of Families
An Anarchy of Families

Author: Alfred W. McCoy

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780299229849

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Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of the country's family-based oligarchy both derives from and contributes to a weak Philippine state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Filipino leaders have fused family, politics, and business to compromise public institutions and amass private wealth--a historic pattern that persists to the present day. Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, An Anarchy of Families explores the pervasive influence of the modern dynasties that have led the Philippines during the past century. Exemplified by the Osmeñas and Lopezes, elite Filipino families have formed a powerful oligarchy--controlling capital, dominating national politics, and often owning the media. Beyond Manila, strong men such as Ramon Durano, Ali Dimaporo, and Justiniano Montano have used "guns, goons, and gold" to accumulate wealth and power in far-flung islands and provinces. In a new preface for this revised edition, the editor shows how this pattern of oligarchic control has continued into the twenty-first century, despite dramatic socio-economic change that has supplanted the classic "three g's" of Philippine politics with the contemporary "four c's"--continuity, Chinese, criminality, and celebrity.

Love, Passion and Patriotism
Love, Passion and Patriotism

Author: Raquel A. G. Reyes

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9789971693565

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Love, Passion and Patriotism is an intimate account of the lives and experiences of a renowned group of young Filipino patriots, the men whose propaganda campaign was a catalyst for the country's revolt against Spain. As writers, artists, and scientists who resided in Europe, they were exposed to new ideas. Reyes uses their paintings, photographs, political writings, novels, and letters to show the moral contradictions inherent in their passionate patriotism and their struggle to come to terms with the relative sexual freedom of European women, which they found both alluring and sordid.