Book Series II:
Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor (2022) by Allan Punzalan Isaac
Filipino Time explores how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human relations. Reading short fiction, musical performance, everyday work life, and documentary film, Filipino Time traces other ways of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others, by weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but habitable textures of labor-time and capital logics.
Allan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and English. His research focuses on Asian American literature and studies, U.S. empire, and Filipino diasporic life and death.
Moderator: Andy Urban, American Studies and History & Co-Director of SAS Global Asias)
Respondents:
Christine Bacareza Balance, Performing and Media Arts and Asian American Studies, Cornell University
Lucy M. Burns, Asian American Studies, UCLA
Martin Manalansan, American Studies, University of Minnesota
Penny Yeung, Comparative Literature, Rutgers-SAS
Ben Sifuentes, American Studies and Comparative Literature, Rutgers-SAS
Reception to follow.