Juan Luna's Revolver
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Description
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 José 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. [Amazon.com]
ISBN
9780268031787
Publication Date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
City
Notre Dame, IN
Keywords
Filipinos (Poetry), Filipino diaspora, Identity, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Disciplines
Poetry
Recommended Citation
Igloria, Luisa A., "Juan Luna's Revolver" (2009). MFA Creative Writing Faculty Bookshelf. 4.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/mfa_books/4