How Long to Read Unsettling the Rhetorics of the Politics of Filipinos on Guahan

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It takes the average reader 2 hours and 44 minutes to read Unsettling the Rhetorics of the Politics of Filipinos on Guahan by Tabitha Caser Espina

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In 1995, I released a musical album and faced criticism for calling myself an island girl, because I am Filipino and not CHamoru, one of the Guahan's indigenous people. Through the years, I have become more conscious of how my ways of knowing and being are primarily a colonial experience, and what I am particularly interested in is how this colonial experience is realized and enacted on an island situated among other colonized. This dissertation is a rhetorical analysis of how Filipinos on Guahan enunciate ourselves in matters of self, community, and politics, as colonial settlers. Using Walter Mignolo's theoretical framework of enunciation to delink from Western epistemologies, I foreground the complex, intertwined histories of colonization in the Philippines and in Guahan, the shared experience of colonial legacies on the island, and the social movements that demonstrate a shared commitment toward decolonization. This work draws on a range of research methods, including being a participant observer, rhetorically analyzing the texts and movements emerging from a community that I myself identify with, and, most importantly, studying ongoing dialogue between the Filipino community on Guahan and the public. Filipinos on Guahan together navigate belonging, culture, community, and politics discursively, and decolonial epistemologies unsettle these discourses. My purpose in studying the rhetorics of the politics of my community is two-fold: (1) to explore the possibilities of contributing productively and respectfully to a decolonial epistemology on Guahan and (2) to frame decolonial activism in a critical collective subjectivity that delinks from the colonial matrix of power and re-members concepts of home, community, nation, and liberation with inafa'maolek0́4the foundation of CHamoru culture predicated on respect, generosity, and reciprocity.

How long is Unsettling the Rhetorics of the Politics of Filipinos on Guahan?

Unsettling the Rhetorics of the Politics of Filipinos on Guahan by Tabitha Caser Espina is 159 pages long, and a total of 41,181 words.

This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 45 minutes to read Unsettling the Rhetorics of the Politics of Filipinos on Guahan aloud.

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Unsettling the Rhetorics of the Politics of Filipinos on Guahan is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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