Bøger af Adrian De Leon

This chapbook of poetry is both an exploration of the uncanny, and an intimate retelling of timeless life experiences. An Imp-man in a Sea of Phlegm is an experiment of what it means to be able to beautify that which is repulsive or unnerving to most. Drawing upon classic themes and pop culture, every detail of this chapbook contributes to the overall work: a loosely-woven narrative of pain and strained freedom.

"From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist extraction. Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States's Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing. From the emergence of Luzon's eighteenth-century tobacco industry and the Hawaii Sugar Planters' Association's documentation of workers to the movement of people and ideas across the Suez Canal and the stories of Filipino farmworkers in the American West, De Leon traces 'the Filipino' as a racial category emerging from the labor, subjugation, archiving, and resistance of native people. De Leon's imaginatively constructed archive yields a sweeping history that promises to reshape our understanding of race making in the Pacific world"--