Song of Yvonne
Author : Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
Author : Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472086375
Book Description
A novel of epic proportions that chronicles recent Philippine history and culture
Woman with Horns and Other Stories
Author : Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781953716033
Book Description
WOMAN WITH HORNS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of a dozen stories by Philippine American writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard that weave Philippine history, culture, folklore, and myths. This 2020 edition of this anthology presents this beloved stories to a new audience as well as readers of Brainard's subsequent literary work, which include the novels WHEN THE RAINBOW WEPT, MAGDALENA, and THE NEWSPAPER WIDOW. Brainard's books, including the books she edited, GROWING UP FILIPINO: STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS and the follow-up GROWING UP FILIPINO II, are considered significant contributions to Philippine, Philippine American, as well as Asian American literature. Katipunan praised it as follows: "Beautifully written in the minimalist style yet never lacking color and clarity, Brainard's stories reach out from the deep centuries of folklore, superstition, religion, customs, geography, and history to bring them life into the present. But more than life itself, this book mirrors the unique ways in which the Filipino woman searches for meaning." World Literature Today noted, "The author, through deep woman-knowledge, makes the stories into one web, weaving events (folkloric, historical, and contemporary) and people through sensibility rather than structure, drawing the reader into the loom of history and fiction, to read all life as one unity.
Magdalena
Author : Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Publisher : Plain View Press, LLC
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Set against the turbulent history of East Asia in the 20th century and by turns erotic and tragic, "Magdalena" vividly depicts three generations of strong Filipino women.
My Heart Underwater
Author : Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062972308
Book Description
Fans of Adib Khorram and Randy Ribay will love this coming-of-age debut about a Filipina American teen drowning under pressure and learning to trust her heart. Corazon Tagubio is an outcast at the Catholic school she attends on scholarship. Her crush on her teacher, Ms. Holden, doesn’t help. At home, Cory worries that less-than-perfect grades aren’t good enough for her parents, who already work overtime to support her distant half-brother in the Philippines. After an accident leaves her dad comatose, Cory feels like Ms. Holden is the only person who really understands her. But when a crush turns into something more and the secret gets out, Cory is sent to her relatives in Manila. She’s not prepared to face strangers in an unfamiliar place, but she discovers how the country that shaped her past might also redefine her future. This novel takes readers on a journey across the world as Cory comes to understand her family, her relationships, and ultimately, herself. “My Heart Underwater is a lovely, magnificent wonder of a novel that will leave you with the rarest of tender heartaches: life-affirming, life-inspiring, life-loving; a heartache of joy and becoming. You won’t walk freely, or willingly, from these pages.” —New York Times bestselling author Marjorie Liu * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 * A 2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist Selection *
Journey of 100 Years
Author : Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Publisher : PALH
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
In this handsome book, seventeen leading Filipino scholars and writers survey some significant themes and issues in the Philippines during the 20th century. In four primal areas -- history, education, literature, and the diaspora, the editors have gathered an engaging series of reflections on the centennial of Philippine independence from Spain.
The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives
Author : Eleanor Rose Ty
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802086044
Book Description
Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies how authors and filmmakers meet the gaze of the dominant culture and respond to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies. Ty does not survey Asian Canadian and Asian America literature, but presents readings of selected texts that actively engage with issues of otherness, visibility, and identification. Many of them, she says, are in the process of working out how larger issues of representation, power, and history affect Asian North American subjectivity. Parts of the work have been published previously.
The Well of Loneliness
Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473374081
Book Description
This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.
Body Parts of Empire
Author : Nerissa Balce
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Human body
ISBN : 9789715507929
Book Description
"Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the human body, including the moving camera, stereoscopes, and more efficient print technologies for mass media. Rather than focusing on canonical American authors who wrote at the time of U.S. imperialism, this book examines abject texts--images of naked savages, corpses, clothed native elites, and uniformed American soldiers--as well as bodies of writing that document the good will and violence of American expansion in the Philippine colony. Contributing to the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and gender studies, the book analyzes the actual archive of the Philippine-American War and how the racialization and sexualization of the Filipino colonial native have always been part of the cultures of America and U.S. imperialism. By focusing on the Filipino native as an abject body of the American imperial imaginary, this study offers a historical materialist optic for reading the cultures of Filipino America"--
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse
Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.
