Reviews for The Lexical Field of the Substantives of "Gift" in Ancient Hebrew

The average rating for The Lexical Field of the Substantives of "Gift" in Ancient Hebrew based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-22 00:00:00 Anton Schrama American Tropics resituates the imperial construction of the Philippines in the American imagination. Isaac suggests the Philippines and Filipino Americans are rendered invisible by the Imperial logic of the United States. The work seeks to place an analysis of the racial construction of the Philippines and an analysis of Filipino American literature as part of an "American Tropics" discourse of unincorporated territories rather than seeing Filipino authors and the Philippines as part of a dominant immigration-exclusion paradigm in Asian American studies. The opening of the book lays this theoretical groundwork, particularly in relationship to popular culture references that I apparently missed when they occurred (namely Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan), and an incisive legal analysis focused on the "Insular Cases." [Remember learning about them in high school? Remember how they forgot to explain we were learning about U.S. imperialism?] The book then moves to a reading of turn of the century boy scout novels set in Mexico, Panama, and the Philippines and post-WWII movies set in the Pacific Islands (like Elvis' Blue Hawaii ). These were pretty enjoyable to read and remarkably clear. (Who doesn't want to hear about "The Case of the Missing Class Conflict"?) The final two chapters are literary analysis. The first compares Bulosan's America is In the Heart to Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets and John Dominis Holt's Waimea Summer and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. These chapters demonstrate how these works construct a Filipino subject to speak back to the "imperial grammar" with a "postcolonial syntax." If you aren't into literary analysis I think you might still enjoy 2-4 (Just don't let the theory-crazy intro and the continuation of intimidating chapter names - like "Disappearing Clauses" and "Moral Sentences" - scare you). I think the final two chapters are harder to enjoy if you haven't read the texts.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-10 00:00:00 David Preusse The first couple chapters presented a fascinating look at how Filipinos are caught between being part of the US and not a part following 50 years of colonialism. This should be a part of all American history classes. It is particularly interesting to me as a Minnesota historican as he focuses on a murderer (Filipino American) who murdered a man in Chisago County, Minnesota. Andrew Cunanan went on to kill Gianni Versace as well, part of a five-person killing spree that spanned the United States.