Flippin'
Filipinos on America
Published on 8. July 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-1-889876-01-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Philippines, America's \u0022showcase of democracy\u0022 and its only former colony in Asia, remains enigmatic to most Americans. What we know of this archipelago is very often condensed, filtered, or distorted y Western preconceptions and interpretations. Here, for the first time, are Filipino and Filipino American writers telling their lives in their own words. Here are stories of passion and betrayal, home and exile, the politics of the self and a nation in search of itself. Here are poems of such power and beauty that can rank among the best in the world. In these pages the reader will find familiar figures -- the greedy Marcoses, teenage gangs, game shows, rock star clones -- as well as characters and themes of every stripe and hue, from gay youngsters checking out surfer jocks in Hawai'i to Westernized girls coming out of convent school, from a searing recollection of gang rape to meditations on the spirit. Altogether, these works provide a deeper image of the Philippines and of Filipinos in America, as seen by some of the best writers from both sides of the world. Ultimately, it gives a unique and vivid perspective of America as well.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-889876-01-6 (9781889876016)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Luis H. Francia is a poet, writer, and critic who has published two books of poetry. He edited the seminal Brown River, White Ocean, an anthology of Philippine literature in English. He teaches Asian American literature at Sarah Lawrence College. Eric Gamalinda is the author of five books of poetry and fiction. He has been widely published in the United States and the Philippines.
Content
CONTENTS Myth, Memory, Myopia: Or, I May Be Brown But I Hear America Singin' By Eric Gamalinda The Other Side of the American Coin By Luis H. Francia Stories The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor Bienvenido Santos Crossing Over NVM Gonzales A Man's Reward is in Heaven F. Sionil Jose Fortress in the Plaza Linda Ty-Casper Something's Got to Give Bataan Faigao Fugitive Colors Ninotchka Rosca Sideshow Jessica Hagedorn The End of Awkwardness Edgard Poma Home Peter Bacho Elvis of Manila Eric Gamalinda Two Deaths Marianne Villanueva Her Wild American Self M. Evelina Galang Fredo Avila Gina Apostol Night Sweats joel b. tan States of Being Bino Realuyo The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing Lara Stapleton Rolling the R's R. Zamora Linmark Jungle Manhood Michael Sandoval Perished Fruit Maria Cecilia Aquino Aguilar Poems Sunset and Evening Star All the Living Fear The Last Trip The Living Hour Carlos Bulosan From a Window in an Old People's Home Edith L. Tiempo Manhattan Rain Jacaranda Trees Carlos Angeles Crossing 14th St. and Avenue A Sunday with the Smiths Luis Cabalquinto Dragon Rene J. Navarro An Imaginary Letter to My Twin Sons Gemino H. Abad Andy Warhol Speaks to His Two Filipina Maids Filipino in Frisco Alfred Yuson America To a Friend in Autumn Simeon Dumdum A Snail's Progress Catholics Anonymous Walls Luis H. Francia A Philippine History Lesson They Do Not Think Much About Us in America War, Like Fever Alfredo Navarro Salanga I, in America Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo Autumn in Vermont Rene Estella Amper My Worst Fear once upon a seesaw with charlie chan Cyn. Zarco I Remember Fermin 1930 Without Names Jeff Tagami Fly-Over Country Rowena Torrevillas Nightfall, Angeles City Airport Lounge, Manila Jaime Jacinto Room for Time Passing Avatar at the Gas Station, Lower East Side Carillonneur Ricardo M. de Ungria Manila Echo Pancho Lapuz The Effect of Distance Till Death Francis Macansantos Parallel Universe Eileen Tabios American Beauty Roses The Book of Exile Maria Luisa Aguilar Carino Her First Night Away English as a Second Language Letter to Home Fidelito Cortes Casting Call The Resident Alien as Acrobat A Sestina Written in a Cold Land Fatima Lim-Wilson Palm Sunday Washing Rice Carlos Bulosan J. Eugene Gloria Beetle on a String Vince Gotera Ang Tunay na Lalaki Stalks the Streets of New York Ang Tunay na Lalaki Realizes He's Below Average Nick Carbo La Reina Maria Lourdes Antenorcruz Password Dora Ty in Kansas Jeepneyfying Noel Abubo Mateo Cadeza Jose Wendell P. Capili Notes from a University Writing Group Emily Porcincula Lawsin Home is a Temporary Thing America from a Plane Jody Blanco Grace's Poems E. Eng Bueng Hungry Drinking Milk in the Dark Kitchen Jessica Nepomuceno Months Irene Suico Soriano Burnings Ruel S. De Vera Imaginings Lucille Rigor Peggy Lee Elda Rotor Plugging the Basketball Diaries You Bring Out the Writer in Me The Trick Regie Cabico Tales Told by Eye Maximina Juson Outside Lester Salvador Nanay Lumen Patrick Pardo Notes on the Authors Acknowledgments