Filipino American Literature

Academic, scholarly, and critical articles on Filipino-American poets, novelists,
and story writers of the twentieth century. All articles are open access and free.

The Writers

main page | 20th century authors | postcolonial authors

General Criticism

Bloom, Harold. A review of Asian-American Women Writers edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997. Reviewed in MELUS, Winter, 1999 by Lavina Dhingra Shankar.

Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra. Waiting for a Flip Revolution: What's the Story With Filipino American Literature? by novelist Cecilia Manguerra Brainard at Philippine Literature web site.

Campomanes, Oscar V. Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile at Philippine Literature web site.

Casocot, Ian Rosales. Philippine Literature Website by Professor Ian Rosales Casocot, Silliman University, Philippines. Contains critical articles along with short fiction, poems, novel excerpts, dramas, films, essays and creative non-fiction by Filipino writers both in the Philippines and abroad.

Dalisay, Butch. A List for Literary Flips at Pinoy.com

Davis, Rocio G. "Introduction: have come, are here: reading Filipino/a American literature," in MELUS, Spring, 2004. This entire issue of MELUS on Filipino American literature can be accessed through this (unfortunately commercial) page at Findarticles.com

Dimalanta, Ophelia A. Philippine Literature in English: Tradition and Change, at Philippine Literature web site.

Francia, Luis H. and Eric Gamalinda. A review of Flippin': Filipinos on America (New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1996) Reviewed in MELUS, Fall, 1999 by Leonard Casper

Garcia, J. Neil C. Filipino Writers and American Students: An Experiment in Literary and Cross-Cultural Understanding, at Philippine Literature web site.

Gier, Jean N.V. Groundbreakers: The First Filipino Writers Published in the U.S at Philippine Literature web site.

Manuud, Antonio G., ed. "Brown Heritage: A Book and Its Legacy," "If any single book can be said to have sparked a revolution in Philippine cultural studies, that book is the nearly 900-page Brown Heritage. Growing out of a series of summer seminars by the literature faculty at Ateneo de Manila University, Brown Heritage gave impetus to the movement to teach Philippine literature on its own, no longer as a branch of American or English literature." Short article on Brown Heritage (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1967, Manuud, Antonio G., ed.) by Roger J. Jiang Bresnahan, Michigan State University.

Mojares, Resil B. Philippine Literature in Spanish, by professor Resil B. Mojares from Philippine National Commission on Culture and Arts

Mojares, Resil B. The Haunting of the Filipino Writer: For N. V. M. Gonzalez (1915-1999) by Resil B. Mojares, originally presented as a keynote paper at the conference on "Localities of Nationhood: The Nation in Philippine Literature" at the Ateneo de Manila University, 10-12 February 2000.

Quindoza-Santiago, Lilia. Early Philippine Literature, by Dr. Lilia Quindoza-Santiago, from Philippine National Commission on Culture and Arts. See also Philippine Literature during the American Period. See for additional periods on Philippine literature

San Juan, E. The Predicament of Filipinos in the United States: "Where Are You From? When Are you Going Back?" by E. San Juan Jr. at Philippine Literature web site.

Journal of Asian American Studies, from Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, publishes scholarship in literary analysis and other subjects in the field of Asian American and Filipino American studies

The Rugged Terrain of Vernacular Literature, by Bienvenido Lumbera at Philippine Literature web site

Philippine Studies Group in Ann Arbor, MI has a small but active web site.

A list of historically significant Filipina writers in English from the Ateneo Library of Women's Writings, a special collection within Manila University that collects writings by and about Filipino women.

Article on the historical novel in the Philippines after WWII from the Manila Times, Oct. 24, 2004.

A list of important books by Asian-American authors new or forthcoming from Asian-American Studies at Univ. of Washington Press.

An overview of Filipino-American writing as representative of post-colonial studies, ethnic writers in the U.S., and Filipino writing as a "different" Asian-American literature. Includes a bibliography, from Postcolonial Studies at Emory Univ.

A page on Philippine literature and a list of Filipino writers from PinoyLit, an organization apparently associated with the Univ. of the Philippines.

Bibliography

A primary and secondary bibliography for Filipino writers and books about Filipino literature, from Kapiolani Community College

Syllabus for a seminar in Philippine literature covering texts of varying genres in Cebuano, Filipino, Tagalog and English, includes extensive secondary bibliograhy

Philippines Womens Studies Bibliographies, from Univ.of Calif. Berkeley Library

Philippine Collection at the Univ. of Hawaii (includes all Philippine subjects, not just literature)