Many Journeys, Many Voices: A Tribute to Filipina Overseas Workers by Edna Zapanta Manlapaz Biography

Many Journeys, Many Voices: A Tribute to Filipina Overseas Workers by Edna Zapanta Manlapaz BiographyBy Edna Zapanta Manlapaz, Czarina Saloma and Yael A. Buencamino Many Journeys, Many Voices focuses the spotlight on Filipina Overseas Workers from the perspectives of three interdisciplinary studies: sociology, literature and art. It chronicles the "feminization" of Filipino migrant labor and surveys the singular challenges faced by Filipina women compelled to work overseas. It allows ten Filipinas to tell, in their own voices, the story of their

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He is the recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America

Tucked among the great pioneer destinations on the Oregon Trail is the fertile agricultural area of the Willamette Valley

What a way to observe the Columbus quincentenary--not with one more cloned commemoration of "minority" literature or rear-guard defense of the European-American tradition

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" Her prose-poems balance (at times uncomfortably) on the much-contested border between "prose" and "poetry

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resisting stereotypes and breaking silences

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