Jessica Hagedorn (1949-)

A selective list of online literary criticism on the Filipino-American novelist, poet, and playwright Jessica Hagedorn, favoring signed scholarly articles and books, peer-reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites.

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introduction, biography, & literary criticism

"Jessica Hagedorn." A brief biography and introduction from the educational publisher Heath Anthology of American Literature.

"Jessica Hagedorn." Excerpts from peer-reviewed literary criticism and analysis for Jessica Hagedorn: On Ming the Merciless; Ming the Merciless Visual Gallery; About Jessica Hagedorn; Online Poems; Hagedorn's Review of Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh; Hagedorn Book Jackets. Modern American Poetry ed. Cary Nelson, at the Univ. of Illinois.

"Dream Jungle." Introduction and interview, from publisher Penguin.

Casper, Leonard. "Hagedorn and the Generation of Hairdos." Philippine Studies 46, 4 (1998).

Evangelista, Susan. "Jessica Hagedorn and Manila magic." Evangelista compares Jessica Hagedorn's writing with magical realism techniques of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. MELUS 18, 4 (Winter 1993) [first page of article only].

Evangelista, Susan. "Jessica Hagedorn: Pinay Poet." Philippine Studies 35, 4 (1987).

Grice, Helena. "Artistic creativity, form, and fictional experimentation in Filipina American fiction." MELUS 29, 1 (Spring 2004) [first page only].

Mendible, Myra. "Dictators, Movie Stars, and Martyrs: The Politics of Spectacle in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters." Genders 36 (2002)

Nubla, Gladys. "The politics of relation: Creole languages in Dogeaters and [R. Zamora Linmark's novel] Rolling the R's." MELUS 29, 1 (Spring 2004) [first page only]

Jessica Hagedorn is a novelist, poet, and playwright. Her novel Dogeaters (1990) was nominated for a National Book Award; other works are The Gangster of Love (novel, 1996) Dream Jungle (novel, 2003) and the poetry collections Dangerous Music; and Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions.

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