SAN JUAN, E(pifanio), Jr. 1938-

(Felix Razon)

PERSONAL: Born December 29, 1938, in Manila, Philippines; son of Epifanio and Loreto (Samia) San Juan; married Delia Aguilar, August 3, 1960; children: Karin, Eric. Ethnicity: "Filipino." Education: University of the Philippines, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1958; Harvard University, A.M., 1962, Ph.D., 1965.

ADDRESSES: Office—Philippines Cultural Studies Center, 117 Davis Rd., Storrs, CT 06268. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of the Philippines, Quezon City, instructor, 1959-60, assistant professor of English and comparative literature, 1960-61; San Francisco State College (now University), San Francisco, CA, Peace Corps language instructor, 1962; University of California—Davis, assistant professor, 1965-66; University of the Philippines, associate professor of English and comparative literature, 1966-67; University of Connecticut, Storrs, associate professor of English, 1967-77; Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, visiting professor, 1977-79; University of Connecticut, professor of English and comparative literature, beginning 1979; Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Storrs, CT, director, 2001—. Zagreb University, visiting professor at Inter-University Center of Postgraduate Studies, 1981; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, visiting professor and fellow of Center for the Humanities, 2002; Catholic University of Louvain, Fulbright lecturer in American studies, 2003.

MEMBER: International Brecht Society, PEN, Modern Language Association of America, American Studies Association, College English Association, Phi Kappa Phi.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fulbright/Smith Mundt fellowship, 1960-63; Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, 1963-65; Palanca Memorial Award for poetry, 1965, and for fiction, 1968; Catholic Mass Media Award and National Book Award, Manila Critics Circle, both 1985, for Toward a People's Literature: Essays in the Dialectics of Praxis and Contradiction in Philippine Writing; Fulbright exchange scholar, University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University, 1987-88; Centennial Award for Literature, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 1999; Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Human Rights Center, 2002, for After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-United States Confrontations.

WRITINGS:

Godkissing Carrion: Selected Poems, 1954-1964, Concord Press (Seal Beach, CA), 1965.

(Compiler and translator) Amado V. Hernández, Rice Grains: Selected Poems, International Publishers (New York, NY), 1966.

The Art of Oscar Wilde, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1967.

The Exorcism and Other Poems, Panitikan Publications, 1967.

Balagtas: Art and Revolution; A Critical Study of Florante at Laura, Manlapaz Publishing (Quezon City, Philippines), 1969.

Maliwalu, mga bagong tula, Manlapaz Publishing (Quezon City, Philippines), 1969.

(Editor) T. S. Eliot, A Casebook on "Gerontion," C. E. Merrill (Columbus, OH), 1970.

The Radical Tradition in Philippine Literature, Manlapaz Publishing (Quezon City, Philippines), 1971.

(Editor) Critics on Ezra Pound, University of Miami Press (Coral Gables, FL), 1971.

A Preface to Pilipino Literature, Alemar-Phoenix (Quezon City, Philippines), 1972.

Carlos Bulosan and the Imagination of the Class Struggle, University of the Philippines Press (Quezon City, Philippines), 1972.

James Joyce and the Craft of Fiction: An Interpretation of "Dubliners," Farleigh Dickinson University Press (Rutherford, NJ), 1972.

Mayo 1971: At iba pang tula, Manlapaz Publishing (Quezon City, Philippines), 1972.

Marxism and Human Liberation: Selected Essays by Georg Lukacs, Dell (New York, NY), 1972.

(Editor) Introduction to Modern Pilipino Literature, Twayne Publishers (New York, NY), 1974.

Ang sining ng tula: Mga sanaysay sa panunuring pampanitikian, Alemar-Phoenix (Quezon City, Philippines), 1975.

Ang mga mangwawasak: At iba pang maikling katha (short stories in Tagalog), New Day Publishers (Quezon City, Philippines), 1976.

(Under pseudonym Felix Razon; with Richard Hensman) The Oppression of the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (Copenhagen, Denmark), 1976.

(Translator from Tagalog) Francisco Balagtas, Florante/Laura, illustrated by Rodolfo Paras-Perez, Art Multiples (Manila, Philippines), 1978.

(Editor and author of introduction) Carlos Bulosan, The Philippines Is in the Heart: Selected Stories, New Day Publishers (Quezon City, Philippines), 1978.

Poetics: The Imitation of Action; Essays in Interpretation, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Rutherford, NJ), 1979.

Only by Struggle: Literature and Revolution in the Philippines, Philippines Research Center (Mansfield Depot, CT), 1980, new edition published as Only by Struggle: Reflections on Philippine Culture, Society and History in a Time of Civil War, Kalikasan Press (Quezon City, Philippines), 1988, revised edition, Giraffe Books (Quezon City, Philippines), 2002.

(With Luis V. Teodoro, Jr.) Two Perspectives on Philippine Literature and Society, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI), 1981.

Toward a People's Literature: Essays in the Dialectics of Praxis and Contradiction in Philippine Writing, University of the Philippines Press (Quezon City, Philippines), 1983.

Toward Rizal: A Reading of Rizal's Novels "Noli Me Tangere" and "El Filibusterismo," Philippines Research Center (Mansfield Depot, CT), 1983.

(Compiler) Bulosan: An Introduction with Selections, National Book Store (Manila, Philippines), 1983.

(Editor) If You Want to Know What We Are: A Carlos Bulosan Reader, introduction by Leigh Bristol-Kagan, West End Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1983.

Kung ikaw ay inaapi, bakit hindi ka magbalikwas?, or, Kung ikaw ay inaalipin, bumangon ka at lumaban!: At iba pang tula, Makibaka Publications (Manila, Philippines), 1984.

The Ashes of Pedro Abad Santos and Other Poems, Philippines Research Center (Mansfield Depot, CT), 1985.

Crisis in the Philippines: The Making of a Revolution, Bergin & Garvey (South Hadley, MA), 1986.

Subversions of Desire: Prolegomena to Nick Joaquin, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI), 1988.

Transcending the Hero, Reinventing the Heroic: An Essay on André Gide's Theater, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1988.

Ruptures, Schisms, Interventions: Cultural Revolution in the Third World, De La Salle University Press (Manila, Philippines), 1988.

From People to Nation: Essays in Cultural Politics, Asian Social Institute (Manila, Philippines), 1990.

Writing and National Liberation: Essays in Critical Practice, University of the Philippines Press (Quezon City, Philippines), 1991.

Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States, Humanities Press (Atlantic Highlands, NJ), 1992.

Reading the West/Writing the East: Studies in Comparative Literature and Culture, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1992.

Pakikibaka tungo sa mapagpalayang kultura, Kalikasan Press (Manila, Philippines), 1993.

Smile of the Medusa (short stories), Anvil Publishing (Pasig, Philippines), 1994.

From the Masses, to the Masses: Third World Literature and Revolution, MEP Publications (Minneapolis, MN), 1994.

Allegories of Resistance: The Philippines at the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century, University of Philippines Press (Quezon City, Philippines), 1994.

(Editor and author of introduction) Carlos Bulosan, The Cry and the Dedication, Temple University Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1995.

Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1995.

(Editor and author of introduction) On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan, Temple University Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1995.

History and Form: Selected Essays, Ateneo de Manila University Press (Quezon City, Philippines), 1996.

The Philippine Temptation: Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations, Temple University Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1996.

Mediations from a Filipino Perspective, Anvil Publishing (Pasig City, Philippines), 1996.

Rizal in Our Time: Essays in Interpretation, Anvil (Pasig City, Philippines), 1997.

Beyond Postcolonial Theory, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1998.

Filipina Insurgency: Writing against Patriarchy in the Philippines: Selected Essays, Giraffe Books (Quezon City, Philippines), 1998.

From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1998.

After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-United States Confrontations, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Lanham, MD), 2000.

Alay sa paglikha ng bukang-liwayway (poetry in Tagalog), Ateneo de Manila University Press (Quezon City, Philippines), 2000.

Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 2002.

Working through the Contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice, Bucknell University Press (Lewisburg, PA), 2004.

Editor of "Makibaka! Revolutionary Literature from the Philippines," Philippines Research Center (Mansfield Depot, CT), 1979. Contributor to books, including "Winesburg, Ohio": Text and Criticism, edited by John H. Ferres, Viking (New York, NY), 1967; Oedipus: Myth and Dramatic Form, edited by J. L. Sanderson and Everett Zimmerman, Houghton-Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1967; Revaluations of Victorian Literature, edited by Shiv Kumar, New York University Press (New York, NY), 1968; and The Weapons of Criticism, edited by Norman Rudich, Ramparts Publishing (Palo Alto, CA), 1975. Contributor of articles on literary topics to journals, including Asian Studies, Personalist, and University of Toronto Quarterly.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Marx and Spinoza: A Comparative Study; Dialectics of National Liberation.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

books

Makata, Makata, Inc., 1967.

Manghas, R., editor, Manlilikha, Kadipan, Inc., 1967.

San Juan, E., Jr., The Exorcism and Other Poems, Panitikan Publications, 1967.

periodicals

Canadian Literature, summer, 2000, Laura Moss, review of Beyond Postcolonial Theory, p. 167.

Choice, December, 2000, M. P. Onorato, review of After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-United States Confrontations, p. 760.

Contemporary Sociology, January, 2003, review of Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference, p. 132.

International Migration Review, summer, 2000, Ann D. Bagchi, review of From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States, p. 575.

Journal of American Ethnic History, spring, 2002, Martin F. Manalansan IV, review of From Exile to Diaspora, p. 100.

Journal of Contemporary Asia, August, 2003, Joel Wendland, review of Racism and Cultural Studies, p. 427.

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, October, 2001, Millard O. Lim, review of After Postcolonialism, p. 486.

Research in African Literatures, fall, 2000, Chadwick Allen, review of Beyond Postcolonial Theory, p. 187.