Ang Bayan sa Labas ng Maynila (The Nation Beyond Manila)
by Rosario Cruz-Lucero

This is the 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 Stduies Center, University of San Carlos

Finalist, 2007 National Book Awards, for Literary Criticism.