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Title: meanderings on nationalist literature
Review: Under Three Flags is in many ways the antithesis of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. This book claims to seek to analyze the impact of anarchists on nationalist movements and the transmission of ideas. However, the book never really focuses on anything. Rather, the book is really about nationalist literature, mostly from the Philippines. And the book goes into detail about the literature and authors, so if you haven't read the original books you're out of luck.I realize this book probably wasn't meant for me, but the title seemed to suggest a much more interesting project about anarchist and anti-colonial discourse. Anderson never makes a convincing argument about these linkages. Recommended only for scholars of Southeast Asian literature.
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