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And perhaps it was this narrowing of our life into an island, into a filthy segment of American society that had driven Filipinos . . . inward, hating everyone and despising all positive urgencies toward freedom.\" (Carlos Bulosan) \"America came to him in a public ward in the Los Angeles County Hospital while around him men died gasping for their last bit of air, and he learned that while America could be cruel it could also be immeasurably kind. . . . For Carlos Bulosan no lifetime could be long enough in which to explain to America that no man could destroy his faith in it again. He wanted to contribute something toward the final fulfillment of America. So he wrote this book that holds the bitterness of his own blood.\"―Carlos P. Romulo, New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bulosan's gripping memoir-novel of a young Filipino immigrant long ago secured its place in Asian American literature. . . . An outstanding introductory essay extends the historical discussion (and in some ways brings it full circle) in this third edition. . . . [Bulosan's] call to action resonates with the same urgency today as it did seven decades ago.\"―Greg Lewis, Pacific Northwest Quarterly \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The premier text of the Filipino-American experience.\"―Greg Castilla \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paperback: 368 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Washington Press; revised edition edition (February 21, 2014)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN-10: 029599353-7\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 978-02-9-599353-9\u003cbr\u003eProduct Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches \u003cbr\u003e Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39567524855974,"sku":"SKU-445","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/1228afcc84137d4594dce42218f07b3b.jpg?v=1616550437"},{"product_id":"on-becoming-filipino-selected-writings-of-carlos-bulosan-edited-by-e-san-juan","title":"On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan Edited by E. 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After several arduous years as a farmworker in California, Bulosan became involved with radical intellectuals and started editing the workers' magazine The New Tide.While hospitalized for three years for tuberculosis and kidney problems, Bulosan began writing poetry and short stories. Despite having little formal education, he saw his talent for writing as a means to give a voice to Filipino struggles, both in the Philippines and in the United States. He went on to publish three volumes of poetry, a best-selling collection of stories, The Laughter of My Father, and America Is in the Heart, the much acclaimed chronicle based on his family's battle to overcome poverty, violence, and racism in the United States. The Cry and the Dedication carries on Bulosan's passionate, satirical style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview\u003cbr\u003eE. San Juan, Jr. edits an excellent collection of writings which probes issues of displaced Filipino communities and literary issues alike. This is the first collection of Bulosan's short stories, essays, poetry and correspondence, which focuses on the Filipino-American experience. -- Midwest Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSan Juan, Jr. is Fellow of the Center for the Humanities and Visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan University, and Director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center. He was recently chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington University, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He received the 1999 Centennial Award for Literature from the Philippines Cultural Center. 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Bulosan's homecoming explodes the stereotype of the author as a subaltern mimic and offers us a promise of celebrating the advent of proletarian jouissance and national liberation. This is an unprecedented performance of convivial fashioning of the Filipino artist as the exile forging the conscience of the race. Now an iconic author in the American literary canon, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) acquired world-renown for his retelling humorous folktales in The Laughter of My Father. His reputation was established with the ethno biographical testimony. America Is in the Heart, and has been confirmed by the radical novel, The Cry and the Dedication. Haunted by the FBI during the Cold War years, Bulosan has been rediscovered by a new generation of diasporic Filipinos and multi-ethnic readers sympathetic to the national liberation struggles of \"the wretched of the earth,\" the new agency for emancipation from neoliberal, white-supremacist terrorism now threatening the planet.\" - Excerpts from the publisher's website.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Philippine import. 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The answer is : my grand dream of equality among men and freedom for all. To give a literate voice to the voiceless one hundred thousand Filipinos in the United States, Hawaii, and Alaska. Above all and ultimately, to translate the desires and aspirations of the whole Filipino people in the Philippines and abroad in terms relevant to contemporary history.\" The stories in this collection exhibit a wide range of themes and attitudes testifying to Bulosan's versatile craft. In his essay \"I Am Not A Laughing Man,\" Bulosan refused to be stereotyped as a purveyor of cartoons. He sougt to repudiate the one-sided and biased prejudice against him as a Filipino writer handling Filipino materials. Like Chaucer or Boccacio, though under different conditions, Bulosan cherished and translated into practice a serious commitment: the trenchant exposure of folly and vice through various comic and satiric stratagems. Through the oblique modes of irony, allegory and other symbolic devices, Bulosan denounced oppression and exploitation. His narrative style involved mainly a criticism of social classes through the discriminating portrayal of concrete types (not stereotypes) that reflect the dynamic and diverse trends of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Philippine import. 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The short story \"The Filipino Houseboy,\" also included in this volume, helps to establish Bulosan as the author of All the Conspirators.\" - Excerpts from the publisher's website.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublisher : University of Washington Press; First Edition (April 1, 2005)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage : English\u003cbr\u003ePaperback : 192 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN-10 : 029598497-X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 : 978-02-9-598497-1\u003cbr\u003eItem Weight : 8 ounces\u003cbr\u003eDimensions : 5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39568096592038,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/bc4ce822306226a84f9eb1a0478fdf80.jpg?v=1616555089"},{"product_id":"bulosan-an-introduction-with-selections-by-e-san-juan-jr","title":"Bulosan: An Introduction with Selections by E San Juan Jr.","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf the million Filipinos who found themselves in the United States in the two decades before and after World War II, CARLOS BULOSAN--his entire life and works--represents the heroic struggles and sacrifices of the Filipino community as a colonized people and an emergent national agency in world history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ National Book Store; 0 edition (January 1, 1983)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎ English\u003cbr\u003ePaperback ‏ : ‎ 157 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9710802593\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9710802593\u003cbr\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"National Book Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45385724788902,"sku":"","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/files\/22734898.jpg?v=1715994505"},{"product_id":"america-is-in-the-heart-washington-papers-by-carlos-bulosan","title":"America Is In The Heart (Washington Papers) by Carlos Bulosan","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West. 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