Kritika Kultura

International Board of Editors

Jan Baetens
Cultural Studies Institute
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Michael Denning
Yale University, USA

Faruk
Cultural Studies Center
Gadja Mada University, Indonesia

Regenia Gagnier
University of Exeter, UK

Leela Gandhi
University of Chicago, USA

Inderpal Grewal
University of California at Irvine, USA

Peter Horn
Professor Emeritus
University of Capetown, South Africa

Anette Horn
Department of Modern and European Languages
University of Pretoria, South Africa

David Lloyd
University of Southern California, USA

Bienvenido Lumbera
National Artist for Literature
Professor Emeritus
University of the Philippines

Rajeev S. Patke
Department of English Language and Literature
National University of Singapore

Temario Rivera
International Relations
International Christian University, Japan

Vicente L. Rafael
University of Washington, USA

E. San Juan, Jr.
Philippine Cultural Studies Center, USA

Neferti X.M. Tadiar
Columbia University, USA

Antony Tatlow
University of Dublin, Ireland

Kritika Kultura (KK) is three things all at once: an international journal, a lecture series, and an archive of lecture videos.

JOURNAL. KK is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic journal of language and literary/cultural studies. It is published twice a year (February and August) by the Department of English, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. It is acknowledged by a host of Asian and Asian American Studies libraries and scholars network, and indexed in MLA, EBSCO, and Scopus.

LECTURE SERIES. Scholars in the international KK network are regularly invited to present their latest research in the Kritika Kultura Lecture Series.

LECTURE VIDEO ARCHIVE. Bit by bit, we are uploading our large collection of lecture videos from the Kritika Kultura Lecture Series. Latest video uploads:

Delia A. Aguilar, University of Connecticut (USA):
"The Ironies of Feminism"

Beatriz P. Lorente, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore):
"In the Grip of English: The Impact of Migration on Language Policy in the Philippines"

Charles Musser, Yale University (USA):
"Nationalism, Contradiction, and Identity: Reassessing the Origins of Filipino Cinema"

For a list of lectures and videos, click here.

Issue No. 14

FEBRUARY 2010 (Special Issue)

This special issue covers Part 1 of "Radical Theatre and Ireland" and "Philippine Theater and Martial Law." Part 2 will be published in the next issue of Kritika Kultura.

RADICAL THEATRE AND IRELAND (part 1)
Guest Editor: Victor Merriman
Victor Merriman convened “Radical Theatre and Ireland: A Colloquium” on February 6-7, 2009 at Liverpool Hope University. The project to publish the proceedings of the colloquium in Kritika Kultura is suggested by David Lloyd, Visiting Professor at Hope and member of the Kritika Kultura International Advisory Board. This issue features Victor Merriman’s introduction and two papers from the colloquium.

Philippine theater and martial law (part 1)
The papers in this forum were read at “Teatro Testimonio: Poetics and Politics of Performance in the Philippines Under Martial Law,” a Kritika Kultura Lecture Series held on February 17, 2010 at the Ateneo de Manila University. This issue features an introduction by National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera and three paper testimonials from the “cultural workers” of the period.

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Contents

History as Rumor: The Political Fantasy of the Negrense Elite in
Vicente Groyon's The Sky Over Dimas
Mayel P. Martin

Disciplining the Times and Spaces of Modernism
Pamela Caughie

Forum Kritika: Radical Theatre and Ireland (Part 1)
Guest Editor: Victor Merriman

"Not Always, But Often": Introduction to a Special Issue on Radical Theatre and Ireland
Victor Merriman

"He Calls His Dada Still": Nineteenth Century English Radicalism and
The Drama of Padraic Pearse
James Moran

Socialist Shenanigans and Emerald Epiphanies:
The Case of Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden
Tim Prentki

Forum Kritika: Philippine Theater and Martial Law (Part 1)

Philippine Theater in Confinement: Breaking Out of Martial Law
Bienvenido Lumbera

Playwriting in the Time of Exigency
Rodolfo Vera

Crossing Borders: Philippine Activist Theater and Martial Law
Bonifacio P. Ilagan

Spectacle! The Power of Protest Drama During Martial Law
Glecy C. Atienza

New Scholars Forum

Orosipon Kan Bikolnon: Interrupting the Nation
Raniela Barbaza

Literary Section: Poetry

The Poem as Anagram: A Brief Introduction to the Work of Vincenz Serrano
Conchitina Cruz

Selections from The Collapse of What Separates Us
Vincenz Serrano

Literary Section: Fiction

Interview with Jose Y. Dalisay
Daryll Delgado

Agcalan Point
Jose Y. Dalisay

More About Kritika Kultura

The Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, especially since the resurgence of nationalism in the 1960s, has more sharply viewed its role as inextricably linked not only to the development of what had generally been called "English Studies" in literature and language scholarship but as helping contribute to the understanding of the relationship of culture and society as well.
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Kritika Kultura addresses issues relevant to the 21st century: language, literature and cultural policy, cultural politics of representation, the political economy of language, literature and culture, pedagogy, language teaching and learning, critical citizenship, the production of cultural texts, audience reception, systems of representation, effects of texts on concrete readers and audiences, the history and dynamics of canon formation, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, diaspora, nationalism and nationhood, national liberation movements, identity politics, feminism, women’s liberation movements, and postcolonialism.