Our Literary Matriarchs, 1925–1953: Angela Manalang Gloria, Paz M. Latorena, Loreto Paras Sulit, and Paz Marquez Benitez by Edna Zapanta Manlapaz
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"... I discovered what I really wanted to write: not the grand narrative of Filipino women writers but the personal stories of four of them - Paz Marquez Benitez (1894-1983), whose story, "Dead Stars," published in 1925, is the modern short story in Philippine literature; Paz Latorena (1908-1953); and Loreto Paras Sulit (1908-), whose stories were regularly cited in Jose Garcia Villa's annual Honor Roll of Stories, 1926-1940; and Angela Manalang Gloria (1907-1995), whose Poems (1940) was the first published collection of poems by a Filipino woman...
Through the particulars of their lives differed dramatically, their stories are variations of the same plot discernible in the life stories of all women writers: the incessant search for a private space within which to write, a room of one's own." -- from the Preface.
Published in 2006." -Excerpts from the publisher's website.
A Philippine import. Limited copies available.
Weight: 0.334 kg
ISBN: 978-97-1-550229-0
Imprint: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Language: English
J.J.
Through the particulars of their lives differed dramatically, their stories are variations of the same plot discernible in the life stories of all women writers: the incessant search for a private space within which to write, a room of one's own." -- from the Preface.
Published in 2006." -Excerpts from the publisher's website.
A Philippine import. Limited copies available.
Weight: 0.334 kg
ISBN: 978-97-1-550229-0
Imprint: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Language: English
J.J.