A guide to literary criticism on the internet for Carlos Bulosan
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Cimatu, Frank. "Remembering Carlos Bulosan," 9/25/2002, courtesy of Filipinas Heritage Library.
Espiritu, Augusto Fauni. Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals (Stanford Univ. Press, 2005). "A close reading of the texts and social practices of five pioneering, trans-Pacific Filipino American writers of the colonial era: the diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, the poet Jose Garcia Villa, fiction writers N. V. M. Gonzalez and Bienvenido N. Santos, and the celebrated Asian American worker-writer Carlos Bulosan." Preview at Google Books.
Grow, L.M. On 'The Laughter of my Father.' In MELUS, 6/22/95. Link updated 2/16/09.
Higashida, Cheryl. Re-Signed Subjects in the Fiction Of Carlos Bulosan and Hisaye Yamamoto. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring 2004. Link updated 2/16/09
Libretti, Tim. "First and Third Worlds in U.S. Literature: Rethinking Carlos Bulosan." The novel 'The Cry and the Dedication' by Carlos Bulosan is discussed in relation to his earlier work 'America is in the Heart. In MELUS, 12/22/98. Link updated 2/16/09
Manarpaac, Danilo Victorino. "Desire and Loathing in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart and Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor. In Mohr, Dunja M. (ed. and introd.); Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English (Rodopi, 2008).
Miller, Joshua L. "The Gorgeous Laughter of Filipino Modernity:, Carlos Bulosan's The Laughter of My Father." In Mao, Douglas (ed. and introd.); Walkowitz, Rebecca L. (ed. and introd.). Bad Modernisms (Duke Univ. Press, 2006). Preview at Google Books.
Ponce, Martin Joseph. "On Becoming Socially Articulate: Transnational Bulosan." Analysis of Bulosan's American is in the Heart and his critical reception in the US and his centrality, or lack of centrality, in the postcolonial context. Journal of Asian American Studies 8.1 (2005) 49-80 [keywords: American literature, Filipino American authors, History and criticism]
San Juan, E., ed. Web page from the publisher of On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan a collection of Bulosan's short stories, essays, poetry, and correspondence edited by E. San Juan, Jr., Temple Univ. Press.
Slotkin, Joel. "Igorots and Indians: Racial Hierarchies and Conceptions of the Savage in Carlos Bulosan's Fiction of the Philippines." First page of article only. In American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 2000 Dec.
Wesling, Meg. "Colonial education and the politics of knowledge in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart." Melus, June 2007
An introduction to Carlos Bulosan in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005) by Emmanuel Sampath Nelson. Preview at Google Books.
Carlos Bulosan is a featured author in the Annenberg/CPB web site on the American Migrant Experience. "Carlos Bulosan is the first important literary voice for Filipinos in the United States. Bulosan's most famous novel, America Is in the Heart, was published in 1946. It depicts the terrible living and working conditions of Filipino immigrants struggling to survive in America."
Brief introduction to Carlos Bulosan from the Heath Anthology of American Literature.
Introduction to Carlos Busolan and his career from HistoryLink at Washington Univ.
The Ma-Yi Theater Company. "Theatre aficionados will surely recall the one-act play "The Romance of Magno Rubio" which was written by Lonnie Carter who based it on a story of immigrant worker-writer Carlos Bulosan." Manila Bulletin, March 11 2005
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