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On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan (Asian American History and Culture) by Carlos Bulosan; Epifanio San Juan Jr. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan (Asian American History and Culture) about?
A companion volume toThe Cry and the Dedication, this is the first extensive collection of Carlos Bulosan's short stories, essays, poetry, and correspondence. Bulosan's writings expound his mission to redefine the Filipino American experience and mark his growth as a writer. The pieces included here reveal how his sensibility, largely shaped by the political circumstances of the 1930s up to the 1950s, articulates the struggles and hopes for equality and justice for Filipinos. He projects a "new world order" liberated from materialist greed, bigoted nativism, racist oppression, and capitalist exploitation. As E. San Juan explains in his Introduction, Bulosan's writings "help us to understand the powerlessness and invisibility of being labeled a Filipino in post Cold War America." Author note: Born in 1911 in the Philippines to a peasant family, Carlos Bulosan was one of the first wave of Filipino immigrants to come to the United States in the 1930s. After several arduous years as a farmworker in California, Bulosan became involved with radical intellectuals and started editing the workers' magazineThe New Tide.While hospitalized for three years for tuberculosis and kidney problems,
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- Author
- Carlos Bulosan; Epifanio San Juan Jr.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781566393096
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities