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M. Casumbal-Salazar (siya/she/they) has received support from VONA, Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, Fulbright Foundation, Philippine American Writers and Artists/Manuel & Penelope Flores Scholarship Fund, SAFTA/Lambda Literary, & Minnesota Northwoods Conference. Their poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Kaleidoscoped, Hot Pink, & the Nightboat Books anthology Permanent Record. Her fabulist novella, “Our Beloved,” was a finalist for the Texas Review’s Clay Reynolds Novella Prize & won Sunspot Literary Journal’s Inception contest. Casumbal-Salazar’s research on Philippine indigeneity & manggá / mango as relation is published or forthcoming in Amerasia Journal & Eating More Asian America. At 50, they abandoned the Politics professoriate for the Writing MFA at the University of California San Diego. She’s been in the queer Pilipinx arts/organizing mix since Prince toured with The Revolution.
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Epiphany Literary Magazine, Empire Special Issue, Spring/Summer, 2021
m a na g i n g e d i t o r Miracle Jones d e v e l o p m e n t d i r e c t o r Alisson Wood s o c... more m a na g i n g e d i t o r Miracle Jones d e v e l o p m e n t d i r e c t o r Alisson Wood s o c ia l m e d ia e d i t o r
Epiphany Literary Magazine, Empire Special Issue, Spring/Summer, 2021
Epiphany Literary Journal, Empire Special Issue, Spring/Summer, 2021
What does it mean to be indigenous in the postcolonial Philippines, or in the Philippine diaspora... more What does it mean to be indigenous in the postcolonial
Philippines, or in the Philippine diaspora today? What type of
unstable, emancipatory, and moralized identity does indigeneity
mark? How is the ambivalence associated with indigenous
Philippine identity temporally, and thus nationally, construed?
And how are indigenous cultural practices mobilized to address
postcolonial anxieties regarding a national sovereignty that is articulated culturally, rather than geopolitically? In the practices of cultural governance I examine, indigeneity is not asserted by self-ascribed indigenous peoples and coupled with sovereign power in order to assert political claims. Rather, indigeneity is mobilized to signal the unconquerable, anti-modern postcolonial Philippine subject—a subject whose temporal dislocation illumines the particular ethno-racial character of multiculturalism in the contemporary Philippines. In addition, resonances of this primordial, autonomous “aura’”of indigeneity are visible within other, perhaps less expected political rhetorics—in particular, the rhetorics of indigenous rights and diasporic decolonial nationalism.
Epiphany Literary Magazine, Empire Special Issue, Spring/Summer, 2021
m a na g i n g e d i t o r Miracle Jones d e v e l o p m e n t d i r e c t o r Alisson Wood s o c... more m a na g i n g e d i t o r Miracle Jones d e v e l o p m e n t d i r e c t o r Alisson Wood s o c ia l m e d ia e d i t o r
Epiphany Literary Magazine, Empire Special Issue, Spring/Summer, 2021
Epiphany Literary Journal, Empire Special Issue, Spring/Summer, 2021
What does it mean to be indigenous in the postcolonial Philippines, or in the Philippine diaspora... more What does it mean to be indigenous in the postcolonial
Philippines, or in the Philippine diaspora today? What type of
unstable, emancipatory, and moralized identity does indigeneity
mark? How is the ambivalence associated with indigenous
Philippine identity temporally, and thus nationally, construed?
And how are indigenous cultural practices mobilized to address
postcolonial anxieties regarding a national sovereignty that is articulated culturally, rather than geopolitically? In the practices of cultural governance I examine, indigeneity is not asserted by self-ascribed indigenous peoples and coupled with sovereign power in order to assert political claims. Rather, indigeneity is mobilized to signal the unconquerable, anti-modern postcolonial Philippine subject—a subject whose temporal dislocation illumines the particular ethno-racial character of multiculturalism in the contemporary Philippines. In addition, resonances of this primordial, autonomous “aura’”of indigeneity are visible within other, perhaps less expected political rhetorics—in particular, the rhetorics of indigenous rights and diasporic decolonial nationalism.