Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
American Studies
Reader 1
Wendy Cheng
Reader 2
Todd Honma
Reader 3
Victor Silverman
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Abstract
This thesis is a meditation on liberatory futures for colonized pasts. It begins with a history of the imperial relationship between the US and the Philippines and how coloniality took root in the lives of Filipinos. The second chapter explores the critique of imperialism offered in post/colonial cultural productions by Manuel Ocampo and his location within the museum, as a constitutive site of modernity. The third chapter explores the project of de-coloniality and the role of ritual and imagination.
Recommended Citation
Bautista, Sara, "Dystopian Paradise: A Meditation on Liberatory Futures for Colonized Pasts" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1223.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1223
