The Work of Mothering

Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora

Harrod J Suarez (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08296-2 (ISBN)

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Women make up a majority of the Filipino workforce laboring overseas. Their frequent employment in nurturing, maternal jobs--nanny, maid, caretaker, nurse--has found expression in a significant but understudied body of Filipino and Filipino American literature and cinema. Harrod J. Suarez's innovative readings of this cultural production explores issues of diaspora, gender, and labor. He details the ways literature and cinema play critical roles in encountering, addressing, and problematizing what we think we know about overseas Filipina workers. Though often seen as compliant subjects, the Filipina mother can also destabilize knowledge production that serves the interests of global empire, capitalism, and Philippine nationalism. Suarez examines canonical writers like Nick Joaquín, Carlos Bulosan, and Jessica Hagedorn to explore this disruption and understand the maternal specificity of the construction of overseas Filipina workers. The result is a series of readings that develop new ways of thinking through diasporic maternal labor that engages with the sociological imaginary.

Harrod J. Suarez is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Asian American Experience
Zusatzinfo	2 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08296-6 / 0252082966
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08296-2 / 9780252082962
Zustand	Neuware