The Myth of the Lazy Native
The Myth of the Lazy Native

Author: Syed Hussein Alatas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1136276416

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The Myth of the Lazy Native is Syed Hussein Alatas’ widely acknowledged critique of the colonial construction of Malay, Filipino and Javanese natives from the 16th to the 20th century. Drawing on the work of Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge, Alatas analyses the origins and functions of such myths in the creation and reinforcement of colonial ideology and capitalism. The book constitutes in his own words: ‘an effort to correct a one-sided colonial view of the Asian native and his society’ and will be of interest to students and scholars of colonialism, post-colonialism, sociology and South East Asian Studies.

The Star-entangled Banner
The Star-entangled Banner

Author: Sharon Delmendo

Publisher: UP Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9789715424844

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This work looks at the problematic relationship between the Phillippines and the US. It argues that when faced with a national crisis or a compelling need to reestablish its autonomy, each nation paradoxically turns to its history with the other to define its place in the world.

Revolutionary Spirit
Revolutionary Spirit

Author: John Nery

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9814345075

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A study of Rizal, his works, and his influence in Southeast Asia; how his contemporaries saw him; the role Rizal played in inspiring Indonesian nationalists; how the Indonesians and Malaysians appropriated him in the movement for independence, and how he figures in the region's intellectual, political and literary discourse.

Diplomat-Scholar
Diplomat-Scholar

Author: Erwin S Fernandez

Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

Published: 2017-04-30

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 981476244X

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Leon Ma. Guerrero (1915-82), a top-notch writer and diplomat, served six Philippine presidents, beginning with President Manuel L. Quezon and ending with President Ferdinand E. Marcos. In this first full-length biography, Guerrero's varied career as writer and diplomat is highlighted from an amateur student editor and associate editor of a prestigious magazine to ambassador to different countries that reflected then the exciting directions of Philippine foreign policy. But did you know that he served as public prosecutor in the notorious Nalundasan murder case, involving the future Philippine president? Did you also know that during his stint as ambassador to the Court of Saint James he wrote his prize-winning biography of Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal? Learn more about him in this fully documented biography recounting with much detail from his correspondence the genesis and evolution of his thinking about the First Filipino, which is the apposite title of his magnum opus.