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THREE ON E. SAN JUAN’S BALIKBAYANG MAHAL: PASSAGES FROM EXILE The internationally recognized public intellectual, E. San Juan, Jr. is currently visiting professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. He is director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Connecticut,USA, and was recently Fulbright professor of American Studies at Leuven University, Belgium, and a fellow of the Rockefeller Study Center at Bellagio, Italy. Three reviewers—two American scholars and one Filipino intellectual—comment on E. San Juan’s recent book Balikbayang Mahal: Passages from Exile, Morrisville, NC: Lulu.com, 2007, available from LuLu.com and other Internet distributors such as Amazon.com). A collection of his essays, BALIKBAYANG SINTA: AN E. SAN JUAN READER, will be launched in February by Ateneo de Manila University Press. The blurb for Balikbayang Mahal reads: “A project of homecoming traversed through multiple languages ...

SA HARDIN NG VILLA SERBELLONI --E.SAN JUAN, Jr. Sandaling matining ang kristal na tubig sa lawa, kapagkuwa’y nagsising-sing at umaalimbukay Di mo pansin ang lagaslas ng hanging pumupukaw sa mga bulaklak ng tinataluntong landas pababa sa gumuhong kutang nakaumang sa ating pakikibaka Curva pericolosa Rimanere sul sentiero Sa gitna ng luho’t yamang naipon sa mga mariwasang palasyo nina Duke Serbelloni at iba pang mga “ibong mandaragit” Huwag ka raw lumihis lumiko lumukso-lukso, banyagang lumuluha kahit walang mata Sandaling matining, kapagkuwa’y umaalong maharot—nagbabago sa kisap-mata! Huwag lumipat o magbago, dayuhang lumalakad kahit walang paa—mapanganib daw Lawang tahimik, mahinahon, salaming matining ngunit sa muling paglingon umaalimbukay-- ngunit di mo alintana habang umaakyat ka upang maabot ang yelo’t ulap sa bagwis ng himpapawid Sa hardin ng rosas sa grotto nakaluklok ang ispiritu ng mga Romanong sundalo’t alipin ni Pliny, istory...

Celebrating the Virgin and Her City: An Introduction to Nick Joaquin By E. San Juan, Jr. Chapter 1 of Subversions of Desire: Prolegomena to Nick Joaquin (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1988). What, then, is revealed in the quarrel between Remus and Remulus is the way in which the city of man is divided against itself, whereas, in the case of Cain and Abel, what we see is the enmity between the two cities, the city of man and City of God. --St. Augustine Life should be changed because the state of the world will be changed .... We shall not be what we have been, but we shall begin to be other. --Joachim of Floris Justice cannot exist where all the best things in life are held by the worst citizens; nor can anyone be ham where property is limited to a few, since those few are always uneasy and many are utterly wretched. --St. Thomas More Writing at the turn of the century his now classic autobiography (The Education of Henry Adams, 1900) where the Philippines ...

LETTER OF THE DAUGHTER OF LUISA POSA DOMINADO, forcibly disappeared Filipina Activist Dear Nanay, On August 10, you’ll be 53 already. I really wish you’ll be there when we celebrate it. I’ve missed you so much, everyday and always. And I guess everyone else has, too. It’s been hard not having you around. Manang has been a pain in the ass as always but she’s trying. I’ve been living in a dorm for the past 2 months now. It’s been stressful and depressing living there. Some of my high school classmates are staying there too. I get home sick every now and then because I don’t like that place. I don’t know why. You know this one time; I really got sick because I cried for almost the whole night. Crying makes me weak, I guess. You see, that night, my classmate got home sick and she cried because she missed her mom. And I guess that’s what triggered my fits of crying. You see, I won’t easily admit it and I sometimes forget it, but deep down inside, I miss you so much. I’ve missed you since th...

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