The nineteenth century was a watershed in the history of travel. Several factors related to technical development and industrialization, among them improvements in communications and transportation, rendered travel easier and more comfortable, particularly in the more developed areas of the world
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender a…