Beyond the Nation Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

"Beyond the Nation is nuanced, pioneering, and politically vital for Filipino studies...not only a call for rigorous work beyond the national boundaries of the United States but also a wake-up call to interrogate our fatal attachment to US nation-state even as we are critical of it." - Sony Coranez Bolton (GLQ) "Beyond the Nation is one of the most original, scrupulous, and moving books in Asian American literary criticism that has been published in the past fifteen years. Grounded in exhaustive research on a fragmented, challenging archive of Anglophone Filipino writings, this book poses the deceptively simple question, how far does meaning travel? While questions of queer diaspora, globalization, and cosmopolitanism have become taken up-and perhaps mired in-debates about the exclusionary or hegemonic nature of elite queer identities, Ponces approach to orientation reminds us of the utopian possibilities of what it means to be queer." - Sarita Echavez See,University of Michigan "A major new contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the complex convergences of empire, sexuality, and transnational cultural politics. Through elegant analyses of influential and emergent texts spanning two hemispheres and over a century, Ponces book is as far-reaching and urgently grounded as the queer diasporic formations it illuminates" - Victor Bascara,author of Model Minority Imperialism