Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures Book

	Notes on the Contributors
	Introduction. Writing Outside: On the Question of Location
Ch. 1	Cacique Democracy in the Philippines: Origins and Dreams	3
Ch. 2	Cholera and the Origins of the American Sanitary Order in the Philippines	51
Ch. 3	"Where Every Prospect Pleases and Only Man is Vile": Laboratory Medicine as Colonial Discourse	83
Ch. 4	"Nothing Without Labor": Penology, Discipline and Independence in the Philippines under United States Rule	113
Ch. 5	Nationalism, Imagery, and the Filipino Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century	133
Ch. 6	Filipinos in the United States and their Literature of Exile	159
Ch. 7	Speaking of AIDS: Language and the Filipino 'Gay' Experience in America	193
Ch. 8	The Power of Appearances: Beauty, Mimicry and Transformation in Bicol	223
Ch. 9	Ideas on Philippine Violence: Assertions, Negations and Narrations	259
Ch. 10	Manila's New Metropolitan Form	285
	Index	315