Sony Coráñez Bolton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sony Coráñez Bolton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sony Coráñez |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolton |
| SIGNATURE | BOLTON S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to Tame a Wild Eardrum
This essay builds a close-reading analysis of the television series Undone, whose treatment of race and disability suggests a framework that I call a “Mad migrant imaginary.” This imaginary is comparative and considers the racial, colonial, linguistic, and political environments in which ableism is situated. In doing so, such a framework considers colonial antecedents to the US nation-state which is simultaneously a site of struggle for accommoda…
Origins, Objects, Orientations
No abstract available
Crip Colony
In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature, poetry, colonial records, political essays, travel narratives, and visual culture, Coráñez Bolton traces how disability politics colluded with notions of Philippine mestizaje. He demonstrates that Filipino mestizo writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used mestizaje as a racial …
Manifest Disablement
Filipinx Critique at the Crossroads of Queer Diasporas and Settler Sexuality in Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado
This essay reckons with the relationship between Filipinx diaspora and settler colonialism by analyzing the ways that Miguel Syjuco’s novel Ilustrado (2010) aligns queerness with indigeneity. Filipino diasporic fiction and Filipino American studies scholarship have both critiqued the limitations of supposing a racial homogeneity in the construction of “Filipino America.” Queer diasporas critique has similarly affirmed the heterogeneity and multip…
Ishtyle
Reviewed by: Ishtyle : Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife by Kareem Khubchandani Sony Coráñez Bolton (bio) Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife by Kareem Khubchandani. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Xxiv + 262 pp. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 978-0-472-07421-1. Kareem Khubchandani's Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Night Life is a performance studies ethnography centering the subcultural lives of queer South Asian (mostly) men in Bangalore and…
Subversions of the American Century
Adam Lifshey’s Subversions of the American Century: Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States assembles a literary tradition that has escaped sustained critical attention in Philippine studies, Hispanic studies, and American studies: Filipino literature in Spanish. By focusing on Spanish literature written in the Philippines under US colonial rule in the early twentieth century, the author makes this …
Cripping the Philippine Enlightenment
This article aligns crip theory and postcolonial criticism to advance a “postcolonial crip analysis” by focusing on the often-studied colonial genre of travel literature. Teodoro Kalaw's Spanish-language travel narrative Hacia la Tierra del Zar (Toward the land of the czar, 1908) advances Philippine national interests at the intersection of competing imperial projects—the Japanese in Taiwan, Czarist Russia in Manchuria, and the United States in t…
Deconstructing Filipino Studies
Deconstructing Filipino Studies
Subversions of the American Century
Adam Lifshey’s Subversions of the American Century: Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States assembles a literary tradition that has escaped sustained critical attention in Philippine studies, Hispanic studies, and American studies: Filipino literature in Spanish. By focusing on Spanish literature written in the Philippines under US colonial rule in the early twentieth century, the author makes this …
Cripping the Philippine Enlightenment
This article aligns crip theory and postcolonial criticism to advance a “postcolonial crip analysis” by focusing on the often-studied colonial genre of travel literature. Teodoro Kalaw's Spanish-language travel narrative Hacia la Tierra del Zar (Toward the land of the czar, 1908) advances Philippine national interests at the intersection of competing imperial projects—the Japanese in Taiwan, Czarist Russia in Manchuria, and the United States in t…
Filipinx Critique at the Crossroads of Queer Diasporas and Settler Sexuality in Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado
This essay reckons with the relationship between Filipinx diaspora and settler colonialism by analyzing the ways that Miguel Syjuco’s novel Ilustrado (2010) aligns queerness with indigeneity. Filipino diasporic fiction and Filipino American studies scholarship have both critiqued the limitations of supposing a racial homogeneity in the construction of “Filipino America.” Queer diasporas critique has similarly affirmed the heterogeneity and multip…
Ishtyle
Reviewed by: Ishtyle : Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife by Kareem Khubchandani Sony Coráñez Bolton (bio) Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife by Kareem Khubchandani. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Xxiv + 262 pp. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 978-0-472-07421-1. Kareem Khubchandani's Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Night Life is a performance studies ethnography centering the subcultural lives of queer South Asian (mostly) men in Bangalore and…
Origins, Objects, Orientations
No abstract available
Crip Colony
In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature, poetry, colonial records, political essays, travel narratives, and visual culture, Coráñez Bolton traces how disability politics colluded with notions of Philippine mestizaje. He demonstrates that Filipino mestizo writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used mestizaje as a racial …
Manifest Disablement
How to Tame a Wild Eardrum
This essay builds a close-reading analysis of the television series Undone, whose treatment of race and disability suggests a framework that I call a “Mad migrant imaginary.” This imaginary is comparative and considers the racial, colonial, linguistic, and political environments in which ableism is situated. In doing so, such a framework considers colonial antecedents to the US nation-state which is simultaneously a site of struggle for accommoda…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philippine History and Culture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works)