Kakaiba ang ganitong patakaran dahil kung ang ilang bayan ay nakasalalay sa pagpapahalaga sa kanyang manggagawa upang manatili para sa ikauunlad ng domestikong ekonomiya, institusyonal namang sinusuportahan ng pamahalaan na mangibang bayan ang kanyang mga manggagawa para magtrabaho sa ekonomiya ng ibang lipunan.
By JEFFREY ARELLANO CABUSAO Department of English and Cultural Studies Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island Carlos Bulosan, one of our most significant Filipino writers of the twentieth century, is the focus of a new book by one of our most significant and prolific Filipino literary/cultural theorists and public intellectuals today—E. San Juan, Jr. According to…
Review by PAULINO LIM, JR. E. San Juan, Jr., Carlos Bulosan: Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States A Critical Appraisal New York: Peter Lang, 2017 Carlos Bulosan: Revolutionary Writer in the United States is part of a project destined for the world’s libraries of the 21st Century. With its colorful cover and solid binding,…
By DR. PAULINO LIM, Jr. Emeritus professor of English, California State University, Long Beach Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan. Edited by Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao. (University Press of America, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, July 2016), 378pp., 18 illustrations, paperback, $40.99 This remarkable anthology introduces Carlos Bulosan to 21st readers,…
In this brief discourse, I sketch an inventory of the U.S. imperial adventure in the Philippines as a background to the work of Carlos Bulosan, the first Filipino writer to gain canonical status, and the ordeal of Filipinos in the era of global capitalism.
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Then pastor of the United Methodist Church English Speaking (MCES) in Wanchai, Hong Kong, Bishop Solito Toquero witnessed the many hardships overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) faced in Hong Kong. “There was one domestic helper who suffered a nervous breakdown. We brought her to the psychiatric ward of the…
We live in a racist society, a racial formation called “the United States of America” where – and this is not news anymore at this late day – people of color suffer daily from racial, national, and class oppression. By E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Bulatlat.com “Yes, I feel like a criminal running away from a…