An edition of America is in the heart Subjects Biography , Filipino American migrant agricultural laborers , Filipino Americans , Social life and customs , Filipino Authors , Poets, biography , United states, biography , Philippines, biography. Audio CD in English - Unabridged edition. Libraries near you: WorldCat. America is in the heart: a personal history.
Borrow Listen. America is in the heart: a personal history , Harcourt, Brace and Company. America is in the heart First published in Subjects Biography , Filipino American migrant agricultural laborers , Filipino Americans , Social life and customs , Filipino Authors , Poets, biography , United states, biography , Philippines, biography. People Carlos Bulosan. The book celebrates multicultural success throughout U. The dictionary section has over cross-referenced entries on authors, books, and genres.
This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this important topic. Score: 5. On Becoming Filipino Author : E. San Juan, Jr. 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 s up to the s, 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.
Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Two Faces of America. The mob ties the girl to a guava tree, where the women spit on her and strip her of her clothes.
The men then beat her with horsewhips while women and children fling sticks and rocks. That Father struggles to find a reasoning behind the madness he has just witnessed indicates that sometimes, tragedies defy easy explanations. Soon after the wedding, Leon sells his share of the family property and moves with his bride away from his village.
The relationship between Carlos and Leon symbolizes transition. Bulosan first introduces Leon as returning from the broader world and Carlos as the laboring peasant farmer. Cite This Page. Home About Story Contact Help. Previous Summary. When Hero De Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about the first and second.
And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. Only their daughter Roni asks Hero why her hands seem to scream with hurt at the steering wheel of the car she drives to collect her from school, and only Rosalyn, the fierce but open-hearted beautician, has any hope of bringing Hero back from the dead.
The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary is ideally suited to chart the consequences of the transnational turn in American studies. Leading scholars in the field from the United States and Europe address the literary, social, and political dimensions of the imaginary, providing a methodological and theoretical groundwork for American studies scholarship in the transnational era and opening new arenas for conceptualizing formations of imaginary belonging and subjectivity.
This important state-of-the-field collection will appeal to a broad constituency of humanists working to overcome methodological nationalism.
In this incisive and polemical book, E. San Juan, Jr. In sharp contrast to other works on the subject, the author presents Filipino literary production within the context of a long and sustained tradition of anti-imperialist insurgency, and foregrounds the strong presence of oppositional writing in the Philippines. After establishing the historical context of U. The first, Carlos Bulosan, a journalist and union activist, became in the author's words a "tribune" of the people. Bulosan's writings which combine critique and prophecy do not allow us to forget the atrocities inflicted on the Filipino people.
Read through San Juan's eyes, these writers are revealed as multifaceted thinkers and activists, not stereotypical ethnic artists. San Juan goes beyond literary studies and contemporary debates about nationalism and politics to point the way to a new direction in radical transformative writing.
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