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announcements. Fill out CAPES Papers back Thurs Presentation Thurs: Susan & Megan Office Hours: Today 2-3 @ CCC Wed 2-4 @ SSB 254 Thurs 2-3 @ CCC. Biyuti & drama. R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s. Identity & performance.

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  1. announcements • Fill out CAPES • Papers back Thurs • Presentation Thurs: • Susan & Megan • Office Hours: • Today 2-3 @ CCC • Wed 2-4 @ SSB 254 • Thurs 2-3 @ CCC

  2. Biyuti & drama R. Zamora Linmark’sRolling the R’s

  3. Identity & performance “Biyuti… points to a particular notion of the self as highly mercurial and plastic” (Manalansan 149) • Self as changeable and moldable • Race, gender, sexuality, nationality as determiners of self, yet highly historically produced “…drama refers to a theatricalized notion of the self and everyday life” (Manalansan 149) • Performance of self according to and/or in rejection of social norms and scripts of race, gender, & sexuality

  4. Banal drama • “… everyday as crucial ‘problematic’ and as a site of tactical maneuvers for creating selves and forging relationship for marginalized groups, particularly diasporic queers everywhere” (Manalansan 147) • “the focus on the quotidian life unveils the veneer of ordinary and the commonplace to lay bare the intricate and difficult hybrid negotiations and struggles between hegemonic social forces and voices from below”

  5. Blame it on Chachi • “Edgar Ramirez is a faggot” (3)  regimes of normal and policing of self • Edgar’s biyuti self as malleable • “’Anak, go to confession,’…” (3) • Drama as survival • “I roll up my sleeves and turn into the Queen of Mouth and Sizes” (5) gender vs sexuality vs sex • “Even though most of the names are who I am and what I do, they say ‘em with so much hate, like I ugly or somethin.’ But I not ugly. I might be mean, but that’s cuz I need for be strong when they tryin’ for put me down and make me ugly cuz I not like them” (10)

  6. characters • Edgar Ramirez • Vicente, Jing, Bino • Florante • Katrina

  7. Major themes • biyuti and drama • Hawaii as contact zone of US economic expansion, militarization, immigration and settler colonialism • banal drama versus banal violence • Pervasiveness and power of US popular culture (“Remixing America”) • sacred versus profane (“Our Lady of the Mount”) – hypocrisy of religious norms • Language as assimilation and resistance

  8. Tongue-tied • Ms. Takara  Japanese settler colonialism • “the asphixiating room” (49)  linguistic violence and colonial violence • “in my native tongue, breath is word is spirit” (BJR 20) • Florante  allusion to Francisco Balagtas • “Their use of pidgin endangers Florante’s appreciation and skillful use of the English language” (54) • “Do not roll the r’s” (54)  What then does it mean to roll the r’s? Why entitle the book this?

  9. Florante’s poetry • “The Battle Poem of the Republic” (55) • Children’s poems  banal violence of educational system • Florante’s re-mix  refusal to perform dutifully • Lolo Taiso  Christ-figure, redefinition of sin and sacrifice (62) • “Requiem” (63) • Memory as contested terrain • Marcoses as figures of anti-Christ

  10. “The Two Filipinos” • Nelson Ariola rejection of racialization (67) • To be Filipino means: • Bad English • Cheap labor • Dogeaters primitive raciality • Physical features • Stephen Bean  to accept Nelson as “American” is to collapse term’s meaning • Edgar’s indictment of multiculturalism (70)

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