gendered memory amp geography Barbara Jane Reyes Born in Manila raised in the Bay Area BA Ethnic Studies UC Berkeley MFA at SFSU Author of multiple books of poetry editor of Doveglion Press ID: 788037
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poeta en san francisco
gendered memory & geography
Slide2Barbara Jane Reyes
Born in Manila, raised in the Bay Area
BA Ethnic Studies UC Berkeley, MFA at SFSU
Author of multiple books of poetry, editor of Doveglion Press, board member of PAWACurrently professor at USF in diasporic Filipino/a Lit
Slide3orient, dis-orient, re-orient
What are the multiple meanings of “orient”?
Concept (Tropes)
“I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accordingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.” - E. SaidDirection and geography (Tropical regions)
“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
– E.
Said
Slide4major themes
Power of language
Persistence of the pre-colonial
Multiple history of colonizationSpanish CatholicismUS occupation, militarism and warThe global cityWhat does it mean to be Filipina in SF given colonization, militarism, and war?
Slide5en esta ciudad
we find ourselves retracing the steps of gold hungry arrogant
spaniards
, walking on knees behind their ghosts, could we ever know how much blood has seeped into the soil – this church, a prison. here, tongues severed and fed to wild animalsen esta
ciudad we have forgotten how to speak
What city is this?
Why
have
we
forgotten how to
speak?
Slide6the pure products of America
Allusion to William Carlos William’s poem “to Elsie” – masculine control and desire expressed over a woman’s body
h
omeless nam vets vs poetic speakerSubic Bay – major military base from 1885-1992Maganda
ka
– you’re beautiful;
mahal
kita
- I love you;
magkano ka
– how much are you?
wala kang pag-asa pag darating ang araw ng pahayag – there is no hope for you on judgment day
Slide7the victory prayer
Slide8Consider this procession
First procession = religious celebration
Violence of Spanish Catholicism
Second procession (25) = Memorial Day paradeViolence of US militarismWho gets to count as war veteran?Kumintang = ancient name for province of Batangas, site of anti-American resistance
Slide9Slide10why choose pilipinas?
Pilipinas
– Philippine islands & Filipinas
Military occupation of islands parallels patriarchal possession of womenGiven this legacy, what does it mean to be a Filipina in the US?Coconut vs Diwa
Kayumanggi
vs
hispanic
hussy (99)
Slide11subjective catastrophe
What does it mean to view a subjective catastrophe?
joey
ayala sings 16 lovesongs“Just how many kinds of love are there? In this album there are16...
Pop songs usually go for the girl-boy thing, and for good reason. It’s the most obvious form of love and almost everybody knows what it means. If you are tired of all the
cliches
you will welcome this album; it stretches the imagination and widens the definition of ‘what makes the world go round’”
dapat
ganito
ang
pag-ibig
: / tunay, / tunay. this is how love should be, real, real