Kathleen DeGuzman is Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University. Her research and teaching focus on postcolonial literature, with particular focus on the Caribbean’s roles within the histories and literary cultures of the U.S., Britain, and the Asian Americas. DeGuzman’s publications have appeared in Studies in the Novel, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Small Axe. DeGuzman is currently writing a book manuscript that examines Caribbean and Philippine literature and film—two literary and cinematic traditions rarely analyzed together—to show how an archipelagic reading practice expands our understanding of colonial pasts and the possibilities for postcolonial futures.
Abstract for “‘A world of with-ing’: Archipelagic Kinship in America Is Not the Heart”
Links:
* Interview with Elaine Castillo (The Guardian, 7 June 2018)
* US Geological Survey. “Typhoon generates disperse ash cloud, Mount Pinatubo, Philippines” (June 1991)
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