Download or read book Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila written by Marianne Villanueva and published by CALYX Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful and poignant stories set in the Philippines
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Going Home to a Landscape written by Marianne Villanueva and published by CALYX Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers teachers, students, and general readers a fascinating glimpse into the Filipina diaspora.
Download or read book Manila Noir written by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manila is not for the faint of heart. Population: over ten million and growing by the minute. Climate: hot, humid and prone to torrential monsoon rains of biblical proportions. The ultimate femme fatale, she's complicated and mysterious, with a tainted, painful past. The perfect, torrid setting for noir. Edited by Dogeaters (Penguin, 1991) author and National Book Award Nominee Jessica Hagedorn, and featuring original stories from a stunning group of multi-award-winning authors.
Download or read book Jenalyn written by Marianne Villanueva and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Jenalyn dreams of a better life. From the vantage point of her home island of Cebu, in the Philippines, America looks like a haven, a place where poverty and hardship can be left behind. When Jenalyn attracts the attention of a much older American man, she and her family assume the rest of her life will be happy. But Jenalyn is unaware of the secret he hides, and the unexpected fate that awaits her. JENALYN explores, with unflinching exactitude, the interplay of hope and delusion in the mind of a young woman who aches only to break free.
Download or read book An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature written by King-Kok Cheung and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Asian American literature.
Download or read book Underground Spirit 1983 to 1989 written by Gémino H. Abad and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume anthology is the sequel to Upon Our Own Ground (2008).
Download or read book Underground Spirit 1973 to 1982 written by Gémino H. Abad and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume anthology is the sequel to Upon Our Own Ground (2008).
Download or read book Mayor of the Roses written by Marianne Villanueva and published by Miami University Press Fiction. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this collection, award-winning writer Marianne Villanueva writes of the contrary beauty, ugliness, and violence of her native land, the Philippines, as well as of the myriad contradictions of immigrant life in the new landscapes of America. In the title story, a Filipina-American emigrant living in Silicon Valley tries to make sense of her native country by following the trial of a provincial mayor accused of gang raping a teenage school girl, a "gift" from his nephew. In the tropical Gothic story, "Rufino," the narrator learns of the death of her family's driver who has lived for lonely decades "caged" above their garage. From the heart-breaking "Infected" to the brutal "Sutil" Villanueva brilliantly blends past and present in a seamless undercurrent of emotion and longing."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story written by Blanche H. Gelfant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.
Download or read book Philippine English written by MA. Lourdes S. Bautista and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.
Download or read book Negotiating Identities written by Helen Grice and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Identities is a study of the development of writing by Asian American women in the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the successful late 20th century writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Joy Kogawa, Bharati Mukherjee, and Gish Jen. It relates the development of Asian writing by women in America – with a comparative element incorporating Britain – to a series of theoretical preoccupations: the mother/daughter dyad, biracialism, ethnic histories, citizenship, genre, and the idea of 'home'.
Download or read book Light in the Crevice Never Seen written by Haunani-Kay Trask and published by CALYX Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The (female) "Malcolm X" of Hawai'I's inconsolable grief and rage at the destruction of her people's land.
Download or read book Growing Up Filipino written by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fine short-story collection, 29 Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges of adolescence from the unique perspectives of teens in the Philippines or in the U.S. Organized into five sections--Family, Angst, Friendship, Love, and Home--all the stories are about growing up and what the introduction calls "growing into Filipino-ness, growing with Filipinos, and growing in or growing away from the Philippines."... The stories are delightful (Booklist)
Download or read book Indian Singing written by Gail Tremblay and published by CALYX Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tremblay's poetry sings of the myths and rituals of her Native culture, offering hope.
Download or read book Details of Flesh written by Cortney Davis and published by CALYX Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As if taking testimony from herself as nurse, lover, daughter, mother, Cortney Davis gives us Details of Flesh -beautifully wrought, utterly unforgettable poems."-Honor Moore, author of The White Blackbird and Memoir "Cortney Davis is a revelation."-Martin Espada, author of Imagine the Angels of Bread With her unwavering and compassionate nurse's gaze, Cortney Davis renders the details of flesh.
Download or read book Postcolonial Theory and the United States written by Amritjit Singh and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a “transnational” moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. Studies addressing issues of race, ethnicity, and empire in US culture have provided some of the most innovative and controversial contributions to recent scholarship. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature represents a new chapter in the emerging dialogues about the importance of borders on a global scale. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s in this emergent field by both well established and up-and-coming scholars. Almost all the essays have been either especially written for this volume or revised for inclusion here. These essays are accessible, well-focused resources for college and university students and their teachers, displaying both historical depth and theoretical finesse as they attempt close and lively readings. The anthology includes more than one discussion of each literary tradition associated with major racial or ethnic communities. Such a gathering of diverse, complementary, and often competing viewpoints provides a good introduction to the cultural differences and commonalities that comprise the United States today. The volume opens with two essays by the editors: first, a survey of the ideas in the individual pieces, and, second, a long essay that places current debates in US ethnicity and race studies within both the history of American studies as a whole and recent developments in postcolonial theory.
