E. San Juan, Jr.

E. San Juan, Jr. is a Filipino cultural critic and public intellectual. His works span a broad spectrum of fields and disciplines, from cultural studies, comparative literary scholarship, ethnic and racial studies, postcolonial theory, semiotics to philosophical inquiries in historical materialism. His books and controversial articles have been widely quoted, referenced, and discussed. He is probably the first major Filipino intellectual with a wide international reputation, in the postmodern era.

San Juan contributed the entry for "Ethnicity" in volume 2 of Historisch-Kritisches Worterbuch des Marxismus edited by Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Berlin and Hamburg: Argument, 1997). His essays, translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, and other languages, have been published in Das Argument, Marxismo Oggi, Chung-Wai Literary Monthly (Taiwan), L'Homme et la Societe, Weg und Ziel, Contemporary Monthly(Taiwan), and other venues. His pathbreaking essay, "Surrealism and Revolution," was translated into French and published by Professor Henri Behar of the Sorbonne in the online Web His poems in Filipino have been translated into Russian, Chinese, Italian, German, and other languages.

Two significant contributions of San Juan to Philippine culture and literature are his translation into English of selected poems by Amado Hernández; and the re-discovery of Carlos Bulosan's writings, evidenced in his numerous anthologies of Bulosan's works; and his critical essays on Hernandez in "The Radical Tradition in Philippine Literature,"" ""Toward A People's Literature,"" "" Writing and National Liberation,"" "" The Philippine Temptation,"" ""After Postcolonialilsm,"" ""Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression,"" and "Only by Struggle".