Ang Bayan Sa Labas Ng Maynila (The Nation Beyond Manila)

This is an adventurous work - daring in its crossing of regional borders, capacious in its appetite for diverse forms, energetic in engaging issues of cultural politics raised by the texts encountered. In a field where so much scholarship is tepid and pious, it is great to find this book. - Resil B. Mojares, Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos