Martin Joseph Ponce
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Joseph Ponce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Ponce |
| SIGNATURE | PONCE M J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer Diasporic Crossings and the Persistence of Desire in The Book of Salt
This chapter reflects on theorizations of “queer diasporas” through an analysis of Monique Truong’s novel The Book of Salt (2003). A crucial, though not uncontested, concept, “queer diaspora” investigates the global circulations and alterations of “queer” practices, identities, and economies as well as the incommensurate meanings and valuations of nonnormative gender-sexual formations across disparate geopolitical locations. The Book of Salt illu…
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Queers Read What Now
This essay reconsiders the common trope of gay and lesbian reading from the vantage of racial difference as an entry point into thinking the possibility of comparative queer of color literary history. While testaments to reading as crucial to gay and lesbian identity formation abound, such reflections and the literary canons they produce do not account for racialized readers or literary traditions. This neglect becomes evident when examining wome…
Toward a Queer Afro-Asian Anti-Imperialism: Black Amerasians and U.S. Empire in Asian American Literature
Toward a Queer Afro-Asian Anti-ImperialismBlack Amerasians and U.S. Empire in Asian American Literature Martin Joseph Ponce (bio) This brief essay sketches the outlines of a research project instigated in part by #BlackLivesMatter's call to affirm all black lives subjected to state violence. I had been teaching Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters (1990), Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life (1999), Nora Okja Keller's Fox Girl (2002), and Aimee Phan's We Shoul…
Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
Revolution from Above
Revolution from Above Martin Joseph Ponce (bio) Gun Dealers’ Daughter. Gina Apostol. W.W. Norton. http://books.wwnorton.com. 304 pages; cloth, $24.95. “If you knew that your parents sold arms that prop up your country’s military dictatorship, what would you do?” Twelve-year-old Sol (Soledad Soliman) overhears her American School teacher pose the central question of Gina Apostol’s novel Gun Dealers’ Daughter to his colleague after dinner at the So…
Fluid Masculinities
Book Review| April 01 2013 Fluid Masculinities Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization, Fajardo, Kale Bantigue, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xiii + 251 pp. Martin Joseph Ponce Martin Joseph Ponce Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2013) 19 (2): 270–272. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1957258 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…
Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility o…
José Garcia Villa's Modernism and the Politics of Queer Diasporic Reading
Regarded as the first anglophone Filipino literary modernist, José Garcia Villa (1908-1997) has typically been seen as an aesthetic formalist who refused to place literature in the service of national or ethnic politics. This essay rethinks this presumption by pursuing a queer diasporic approach to Villa's early fiction and essays of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing in particular on his queer critiques of gender and sexual normativity in the Philipp…
Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States; Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions
On Becoming Socially Articulate: Transnational Bulosan
On Becoming Socially Articulate:Transnational Bulosan Martin Joseph Ponce (bio) According to the late P. C. Morantte, Carlos Bulosan declared in a letter written around 1943 to his future biographer, "I am the most socially articulate Filipino in America."1 All the more provocative for being immodest and unverifiable, the claim certainly raises the question of what "socially articulate" might mean. Bulosan's reputation as a "social realist" write…
Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility o…
Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
On Becoming Socially Articulate: Transnational Bulosan
On Becoming Socially Articulate:Transnational Bulosan Martin Joseph Ponce (bio) According to the late P. C. Morantte, Carlos Bulosan declared in a letter written around 1943 to his future biographer, "I am the most socially articulate Filipino in America."1 All the more provocative for being immodest and unverifiable, the claim certainly raises the question of what "socially articulate" might mean. Bulosan's reputation as a "social realist" write…
Queers Read What Now
This essay reconsiders the common trope of gay and lesbian reading from the vantage of racial difference as an entry point into thinking the possibility of comparative queer of color literary history. While testaments to reading as crucial to gay and lesbian identity formation abound, such reflections and the literary canons they produce do not account for racialized readers or literary traditions. This neglect becomes evident when examining wome…
On Becoming Socially Articulate: Transnational Bulosan
On Becoming Socially Articulate:Transnational Bulosan Martin Joseph Ponce (bio) According to the late P. C. Morantte, Carlos Bulosan declared in a letter written around 1943 to his future biographer, "I am the most socially articulate Filipino in America."1 All the more provocative for being immodest and unverifiable, the claim certainly raises the question of what "socially articulate" might mean. Bulosan's reputation as a "social realist" write…
Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States; Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions
José Garcia Villa's Modernism and the Politics of Queer Diasporic Reading
Regarded as the first anglophone Filipino literary modernist, José Garcia Villa (1908-1997) has typically been seen as an aesthetic formalist who refused to place literature in the service of national or ethnic politics. This essay rethinks this presumption by pursuing a queer diasporic approach to Villa's early fiction and essays of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing in particular on his queer critiques of gender and sexual normativity in the Philipp…
Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility o…
Revolution from Above
Revolution from Above Martin Joseph Ponce (bio) Gun Dealers’ Daughter. Gina Apostol. W.W. Norton. http://books.wwnorton.com. 304 pages; cloth, $24.95. “If you knew that your parents sold arms that prop up your country’s military dictatorship, what would you do?” Twelve-year-old Sol (Soledad Soliman) overhears her American School teacher pose the central question of Gina Apostol’s novel Gun Dealers’ Daughter to his colleague after dinner at the So…
Fluid Masculinities
Book Review| April 01 2013 Fluid Masculinities Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization, Fajardo, Kale Bantigue, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xiii + 251 pp. Martin Joseph Ponce Martin Joseph Ponce Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2013) 19 (2): 270–272. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1957258 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…
Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
Toward a Queer Afro-Asian Anti-Imperialism: Black Amerasians and U.S. Empire in Asian American Literature
Toward a Queer Afro-Asian Anti-ImperialismBlack Amerasians and U.S. Empire in Asian American Literature Martin Joseph Ponce (bio) This brief essay sketches the outlines of a research project instigated in part by #BlackLivesMatter's call to affirm all black lives subjected to state violence. I had been teaching Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters (1990), Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life (1999), Nora Okja Keller's Fox Girl (2002), and Aimee Phan's We Shoul…
Queers Read What Now
This essay reconsiders the common trope of gay and lesbian reading from the vantage of racial difference as an entry point into thinking the possibility of comparative queer of color literary history. While testaments to reading as crucial to gay and lesbian identity formation abound, such reflections and the literary canons they produce do not account for racialized readers or literary traditions. This neglect becomes evident when examining wome…
Queer Diasporic Crossings and the Persistence of Desire in The Book of Salt
This chapter reflects on theorizations of “queer diasporas” through an analysis of Monique Truong’s novel The Book of Salt (2003). A crucial, though not uncontested, concept, “queer diaspora” investigates the global circulations and alterations of “queer” practices, identities, and economies as well as the incommensurate meanings and valuations of nonnormative gender-sexual formations across disparate geopolitical locations. The Book of Salt illu…
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
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