Filipino American Literature

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General Criticism

Balce-Cortes, Nerissa and Gier, Jean Vengua. "Filipino American Literature," in New Immigrant Literatures in the United States. Publisher's web site.

Davis, Rocio G. Introduction: have come, are here: reading Filipino/a American literature. Melus 2004 (updated link)

Davis, Rocio G. The struggle for form: a conversation between Nick Carbo and M. Evelina Galang. Melus 2004 (updated link)

Espiritu, Augusto Fauni. Five Faces of Exile (Stanford UP 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." Publisher's web site.

Flores, Nona C. Reviews two novels by Filipinas: The Caprices, by Sabina Murray (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) and When the Elephants Dance, by Tess Uriza Holthe (Crown, 2002). Melus 2004 (updated link)

Gelfant, Blanche H. "The Asian American Short Story: Filipino American Short Story Writers." IN The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Publisher's web site.

Gotera, Vincente F. "Moments in the wilderness: becoming a Filipino American writer." Melus 2004 (updated link)

Grice, Helena. Artistic creativity, form, and fictional experimentation in Filipina American fiction. Melus 2004 (updated link)

Isaac, Allan Punzalan. Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (U of Minnesota P 2006). Publisher's web site.

Manlapaz, Edna Zapanta. "Literature in English by Filipino Women." Feminist Studies, 2000.

Mojares, Resil B. . Waiting for Mariang Makiling (Ateneo de Manila UP 2002). An exploration of Philippine cultural history and nation formation. Can be read, in part, at Google Books.

San Juan, E. The Philippine Temptation: Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations (Temple UP). Examines the writing of Carlos Bulosan and Jose Garcia Villa. Publisher's web site, includes excerpt from Chapter 1.

Tolentino, Cynthia. Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora. Melus 2004 (updated link)

Introduction & Web Sites

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

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

A list of important books by Asian-American authors new or forthcoming from Asian-American Studies at U 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 U

Philippines Women's Studies Bibliographies, from U of Calif. Berkeley Library

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

Dalisay, Butch. "A List for Literary Flips." "As a writers' forum, the Flips list keeps its subscribers abreast of goings-on in the world of Philippine writing." At Pinoy.com

Some Filipino American Authors

Removed Articles

Francia, Luis H. and Eric Gamalinda. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_24/ai_62350914 A review of Flippin': Filipinos on America (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1996) Reviewed in Melus Fall 1999 by Leonard Casper (removed)

Bloom, Harold. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_4_24/ai_63323869 A review of Asian-American Women Writers edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House 1997). Reviewed in Melus Winter 1999, by Lavina Dhingra Shankar.

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