What you will also find are the noir essentials: alienated and desperate characters, terse dialogue, sudden violence, betrayals left and right.” Manila Noir by Jessica Hagedorn (Editor) (2013): “As you will see from this steamy collection of stories, all these delicious contradictions serve to enrich and expand our concept of noir. Zamora Linmark (2011): “Witty and mesmerizing, this novel explores the complex colonial and cultural history of the Philippines and the paradoxes inherent in the search for both personal and national identities.” Insurrecto by Gina Apostol (2018): “Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines’ present and America’s past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter.”

Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere and, sometimes, turning back again.” In the Country by Mia Alvar (2015): “These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive.”ĭream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn (2004): Set in a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, Dream Jungle feverishly traces the consequences of two seemingly unrelated events: the discovery of an alleged “lost tribe” and the arrival of a celebrity-studded American film crew filming an epic Vietnam War movie.

Nick Carbo (Editor) (2000): As the first international anthology of Filipina writers published in the United States, BABAYLAN reflects the complex history of a people whose roots have stretched to both sides of the globe.ĭogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (1991): “Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo (2018): “An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity, humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand of family ritual, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family struggling to balance the promise of the American dream and the unshakeable grip of history.”īabaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers by

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