Introduction
摘要
Figuring Resistance centers on how Philippine cinema and literature produced in the 2000s represent and examine experiences in Southeast Asia’s longest-running communist armed revolution. This chapter lays the conceptual and theoretical groundwork for this book. It provides a brief historical overview of this revolution and discusses the integrality of cultural work to the struggle. It also explores theorizations on revolutionary experiences, and elaborates on the complexities of cultural politics and political culture that shape artistic work and practices in the Philippines in the past decades.