J Neil C Garcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4870666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Neil C Garcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Neil C |
| FAMILY NAME | Garcia |
| SIGNATURE | GARCIA J N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Philippines System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Richard Wright Theorizes Surrealism
The posthumous 2021 publication of the full unexpurgated version of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground, paired with his essay “Memories of My Grandmother,” also published for the first time, opens a new phase of inquiry into his work. The essay, in particular, reveals how immersed Wright became in discussions of surrealism and how he worked to give it specific inflections as he moved toward new projects in the early to mid-1940s. Deve…
Myth and the Creative Imagination
This essay inquires into the broadly creative affordances offered by mythological material to artists in general, and to writers in particular. It uses as examples the first few volumes of the Panay Bukidnon’s epic series, whose insights into non-dualistic thinking and transcendence echo the paradoxical procedures of poetic creativity on one hand, and urge translations into present-day national narrativities on the other, in light of the country’…
Translation and the limits of minority discourse in the Philippines
For many decades now, minority discourse in the Philippines has been trapped in a nativistic framework that essentializes the country’s linguistic and cultural diversity, canonizing one language, Tagalog, and euphemizing it as Filipino. This then has been institutionally imposed as the official medium for postcolonial resistance, routinely invoked in a binary opposition against a colonially endowed English—a dualism that obfuscates the neglect of…
The Explanatory Critic
Harry Levin figured centrally in the postwar “restart” of Comparative Literature, to borrow Gerald Gillespie's apt term for the field's mid-twentieth-century reinvention and expansion.1 Charged with reorganizing Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature after World War II, Levin went on to advise students for over four decades. Only the third president of the American Comparative Literature Association, Levin became a presence within the fie…
Nativism or Universalism: Situating LGBT Discourse in the Philippines
Despite or precisely because of the fact that it is being increasingly globally invoked, the LGBT signifier bids us to understand its discursive performances in various localities, particularly in the global south, whose conservative traditions this form of politics most visibly challenges, at the same time that it can only do so translationally-which is to say, as a form of transcultural syncretism. More specifically, this paper offers a postcol…
Home of the Brave, Frantz Fanon and cultural pluralism
This article examines Mark Robson's Home of the Brave (1949, USA), a Hollywood social problem drama about anti-black racism, and the brief but vivid response to the film presented in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Fanon enables a rethinking of some of the film's most central assumptions and the discourses upon which the story relies. At the same time, Fanon's response conveys information about his own biography and his perspective…
Performativity, the bakla and the orientalizing gaze
(2000). Performativity, the bakla and the orientalizing gaze. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 265-281
Nativism or Universalism: Situating LGBT Discourse in the Philippines
Despite or precisely because of the fact that it is being increasingly globally invoked, the LGBT signifier bids us to understand its discursive performances in various localities, particularly in the global south, whose conservative traditions this form of politics most visibly challenges, at the same time that it can only do so translationally-which is to say, as a form of transcultural syncretism. More specifically, this paper offers a postcol…
Performativity, the bakla and the orientalizing gaze
(2000). Performativity, the bakla and the orientalizing gaze. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 265-281
Translation and the limits of minority discourse in the Philippines
For many decades now, minority discourse in the Philippines has been trapped in a nativistic framework that essentializes the country’s linguistic and cultural diversity, canonizing one language, Tagalog, and euphemizing it as Filipino. This then has been institutionally imposed as the official medium for postcolonial resistance, routinely invoked in a binary opposition against a colonially endowed English—a dualism that obfuscates the neglect of…
Richard Wright Theorizes Surrealism
The posthumous 2021 publication of the full unexpurgated version of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground, paired with his essay “Memories of My Grandmother,” also published for the first time, opens a new phase of inquiry into his work. The essay, in particular, reveals how immersed Wright became in discussions of surrealism and how he worked to give it specific inflections as he moved toward new projects in the early to mid-1940s. Deve…
Home of the Brave, Frantz Fanon and cultural pluralism
This article examines Mark Robson's Home of the Brave (1949, USA), a Hollywood social problem drama about anti-black racism, and the brief but vivid response to the film presented in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Fanon enables a rethinking of some of the film's most central assumptions and the discourses upon which the story relies. At the same time, Fanon's response conveys information about his own biography and his perspective…
Performativity, the bakla and the orientalizing gaze
(2000). Performativity, the bakla and the orientalizing gaze. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 265-281
Home of the Brave, Frantz Fanon and cultural pluralism
This article examines Mark Robson's Home of the Brave (1949, USA), a Hollywood social problem drama about anti-black racism, and the brief but vivid response to the film presented in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Fanon enables a rethinking of some of the film's most central assumptions and the discourses upon which the story relies. At the same time, Fanon's response conveys information about his own biography and his perspective…
Nativism or Universalism: Situating LGBT Discourse in the Philippines
Despite or precisely because of the fact that it is being increasingly globally invoked, the LGBT signifier bids us to understand its discursive performances in various localities, particularly in the global south, whose conservative traditions this form of politics most visibly challenges, at the same time that it can only do so translationally-which is to say, as a form of transcultural syncretism. More specifically, this paper offers a postcol…
The Explanatory Critic
Harry Levin figured centrally in the postwar “restart” of Comparative Literature, to borrow Gerald Gillespie's apt term for the field's mid-twentieth-century reinvention and expansion.1 Charged with reorganizing Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature after World War II, Levin went on to advise students for over four decades. Only the third president of the American Comparative Literature Association, Levin became a presence within the fie…
Translation and the limits of minority discourse in the Philippines
For many decades now, minority discourse in the Philippines has been trapped in a nativistic framework that essentializes the country’s linguistic and cultural diversity, canonizing one language, Tagalog, and euphemizing it as Filipino. This then has been institutionally imposed as the official medium for postcolonial resistance, routinely invoked in a binary opposition against a colonially endowed English—a dualism that obfuscates the neglect of…
Myth and the Creative Imagination
This essay inquires into the broadly creative affordances offered by mythological material to artists in general, and to writers in particular. It uses as examples the first few volumes of the Panay Bukidnon’s epic series, whose insights into non-dualistic thinking and transcendence echo the paradoxical procedures of poetic creativity on one hand, and urge translations into present-day national narrativities on the other, in light of the country’…
Richard Wright Theorizes Surrealism
The posthumous 2021 publication of the full unexpurgated version of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground, paired with his essay “Memories of My Grandmother,” also published for the first time, opens a new phase of inquiry into his work. The essay, in particular, reveals how immersed Wright became in discussions of surrealism and how he worked to give it specific inflections as he moved toward new projects in the early to mid-1940s. Deve…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philippine History and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)