N.V.M. Gonzalez (1915 - 1999)

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Cheung, King-Kok. "Filipino American Literature: N. V. M. Gonzalez to Oscar V. Campomanes," in An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature: reappropriating Asian American masculinity (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Can be read, in part, at Google Books.

Espiritu, Augusto Fauni. "Nativism and Negation: N.V.M. Gonzalez." Discusses stories in Seven Hills Away, other stories, the novels A Season of Grace, The Bamboo Dancers, Five Faces of Exile, and Gonzalez's biography, themes, and techniques. (Stanford Univ. Press, 2005). Can be read, in part, at Google Books.

Espiritu, Augusto Fauni. "The Pre-History of an Asian American Writer: N.V.M. Gonzalez' Allegory of Decolonization," in Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature, edited by Keith Lawrence and Floyd Cheung. Publisher's web site.

Gotera, Vincente F. "The Bread of Salt and Other Stories." Essay on Gonzalez states, "Gonzalez bridges the pioneers, Carlos Bulosan and Bienvenido Santos, with today's trailblazers, Jessica Hagedorn and Ninotchka Rosca. As do these other writers, Gonzalez traces the troubling and troubled web of colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial intersections in the Philippines." Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1995

A web site on N.V.M. Gonzalez, which notes "Gonzalez distinctively wrote of the Filipino life, of the Filipino in the world. Gonzalez is himself a Filipino in the world, traversing between the United States and the Philippines and exploring Europe and Asia." Site created by his grandaughter, includes list of works.

Memorials from Gonzalez' students at the Univ. of the Philippines See also for more tributes

A tribute to N V M Gonzalez from Philippine American Literary House, includes brief biography and personal memories

Among the best known works by N.V.M. Gonzalez are the novels The Winds of April, The Bamboo Dancers, and A Season of Grace; the short story collections Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and The Bread of Salt and Other Stories; and essay collections Work on the Mountain and The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays.

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