Juan Luna's Revolver
University of Notre Dame Press · Hardcover · August 15, 2022
The poems in Juan Luna' s Revolver both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems trace Filipino diasporic journeys through colonial histories, exile, place, and identity.
- Themes
- Filipino diaspora, Colonial and postcolonial history, Exile and identity
- Genres
- Asian American Poetry, Political & Protest Poetry
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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.
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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 Jose 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. Suffused with gorgeous imagery and nuanced emotion, Igloria's poetry achieves an intimacy fostered by gem-like phrases set within a politically-charged context speaking both to the personal and the collective.
Filipino Diaspora
These poems trace Filipino diasporic journeys through colonial histories, exile, place, and identity.
Come here for
- Poems tracing journeys across the Filipino global diaspora
- References to Juan Luna, Jose Rizal, and the 1904 Missouri World's Fair
Expect
- Questions about place, power, and displacement
- Intimate imagery within a politically charged context
Where it sits
| Asian American Poetry | 97% |
|---|---|
| Political & Protest Poetry | 56% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hispanic American Lit Crit
- Poetry
- American Poetry
- Authors
- Luisa Igloria
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Published
- August 15, 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Filipino diaspora · Colonial and postcolonial history · Exile and identity
- Reading lane
- Hispanic American Lit Crit