Decolonizing bodies, reinscribing souls in the fiction of Ninotchka Rosca and Linda Ty-Casper.
From: MELUS
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Date: 3/22/2004
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Author: de Manuel, Dolores
While many Filipino American women writers are immigrants who have lived much of their lives in the US, their work tends to center on a Philippine setting. This might be easily dismissed as a nostalgic attempt to return to a lost ancestral Eden, but their focus reflects a more complex project of negotiation between past and present, between physical and psychic relocation. These writers reconstruct their country of origin as a means of reaching back through the barriers and ...
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