Carlos Bulosan—Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States A Critical Appraisal

“E. San Juan's intervention in the current debates on cultural studies is both necessary and significant. We can all learn valuable lessons from the Philippine experience.”—NGUGI WA THIONG’O, Kenyan novelist
“E. San Juan is arguably one of the most important intellectuals of our times. There are few scholars today who are able to capture with such rigor and verve the historically heterogeneous and discontinuous relations of exploitation, domination and conflict constitutive of today's social existence in the global arena of neoliberal capitalism and the system of wage labor. Part of San Juan's remarkable contribution to our understanding of contemporary social life is his profound grasp of critical social theory and his employment of historical materialist critique to reveal both the limitations and folly of much of what passes today as postmodern and postcolonial studies. San Juan has been hailed as a vital public intellectual by Amiri Baraka, Michael Denning, Bertell Ollman, Bruce Franklin, Alan Wald, Fredric Jameson, and other prestigious scholars.”—PETER MCLAREN, UCLA
“E. San Juan is one of the sharpest and most clarifying voices vis-a-vis Filipino/US and Filipino/world relationships extant. He is an internationalist and political analyst of high morale. It's about time his incisive theoretical summations are given broader access to strengthen the growing understanding of the multicultural united front of progressive thinkers around the world.”—AMIRI BARAKA
“E. San Juan is a scholar of remarkable range and varied talents remarkable for his commitment to literature and culture as vital areas of contemporary social life.”—FREDRIC JAMESON, Duke University
“E. San Juan is one of the world's most distinguished progressive critics. He is certainly the world's leading scholar and critic of Filipino literature and undoubtedly the leading authority on Filipino-American literary relations.”—BRUCE FRANKLIN, Rutgers University