tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post613676823692750412..comments2024-02-16T14:10:12.166+08:00Comments on Bibliophile Stalker: Essay: Filipino Fiction and GlobalizationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-29286891921196508542009-01-01T11:02:00.000+08:002009-01-01T11:02:00.000+08:00Of course the nations aren't equal. And just becau...Of course the nations aren't equal. And just because you write something doesn't mean the rest of the world will read it. Anyone who believes it as such is naive.<BR/><BR/>But neither what Jose said or what you're trying to imply helps the Philippines. At best, Jose espouses isolation and you, caution without a suggestion of plodding forward.Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773038335190893557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-88931351371443908912009-01-01T10:53:00.000+08:002009-01-01T10:53:00.000+08:00Jose is old school nationalist and just plain old....Jose is old school nationalist and just plain old. His idea of nationalism is antagonistic of anything that is "foreign". But our experience of colonization puts our relationship to this "foreignness" in suspect or at least in a precarious position. A lot of appropriation has happened and is happening. What I'm trying to say is that we engage the world in our own terms not by any "global" (a nice word but how global is it really?) standard. Jose said that "For those of us who write in English, since English has become the lengua franca of the world, our literature will have a global reach even without our intending it." Even so, it doesn't mean that when you write in English, the world would read you. It might have the possibility of reach but we do not write for "them" as Jose said, "We are writing for ourselves and for our own people." "Progress" does not equate to "global" or "globalized". I don't fully agree with Jose's ideas of nationalism but I also don't agree with the shrugging aside of the paradoxes of globalization. It cannot be denied but it doesn't mean it cannot be examined and scrutinized. Being in a "globalized world" doesn't mean we, the people of the world, are all equal. Nations and countries are being taken advantage of by richer and more powerful countries. Somebody will always be on the margins, most probably us. That's why I think Jose's reaction was like that. Granted his nationalism is stuck in the 60's but it has its own virtues.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18101673112870605671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-1999866559959217592008-12-31T21:26:00.000+08:002008-12-31T21:26:00.000+08:00There's a difference between caution and discardin...There's a difference between caution and discarding it altogether and if Jose wanted to emphasize the former, he would have said so. It's either that or he was a lousy writer in his essay and I don't think it's that.Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773038335190893557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-59055265370219165942008-12-31T17:39:00.000+08:002008-12-31T17:39:00.000+08:00F. Sionil Jose is a nationalist and, I would think...F. Sionil Jose is a nationalist and, I would think, is pretty much aware of the politics behind globalization. It isn't this neutral thing. Whose idea of culture and civilization would dominate this global arena? Obviously, the economic and military dominant ones. What Jose is afraid of is the dissolution of the Filipino identity and culture in the face of massive cultural dominance of America and Europe. In a globalized world, being "Filipino" may just become a contract, a piece of document one can change in favor of citizenship in a better, richer country. And we cannot exoticize and orientalize ourselves as a justification for our existence. We must be critical with our engagement with the world. We do not need to be isolationists but to fully embrace an idea of the world without question is like being colonized without firing a shot.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18101673112870605671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-79724561510132952072008-12-31T12:46:00.000+08:002008-12-31T12:46:00.000+08:00Toyota's cashing in on the power of cutenessToyota's cashing in on the power of cutenessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com