"As sharp and fast as a street boy's razor" (The New York Times Book Review), Dogeaters is an intense fictional portrayal of Manila in the heyday of Marcos, the Philippines' late dictator. In the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.
More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology "Charlie Chan Is Dead" remains the best available source for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, "Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World" brings together forty-two fresh, fascinating ...
An elegant and smart novel by the author of "Dogeaters" which captures the pain of leaving one country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one, "The Gangster of Love" tells the story of the Rivera family from the Philippines, who have come to the United States to make a new life.
Rocky Rivera plays in a rock band with her boyfriend, Elvis Chang. Her story spans generations and cultures, and includes such characters as her traditional mother, Milagros, her bedeviled brother, Voltaire, her eccentric uncle Marlon, and her best friend, the enigmatic Keiko.
Poetry and short stories from the author of "Dogeaters" and "Gangster Choir". As in her other works, Hagedorn here explores the confusions and perceptions that affect Asian immigrants in the United States.
This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University and teacher ...
In Dogeaters Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her own best-selling novel into an equally powerful piece that is a multi-layered, operatic tour de force. As Harold Bloom writes: 'Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between two cultures...She takes aim at racism in the US and develops in her dramas the themes of ...
Nothing is absolute, especially in the Philippines. It is a land of opposites, where religion, spirituality, superstition, and mystery are all present in equal doses. It is a place where Catholics consult tarot card readers and prostitutes keep shrines to the Virgin Mary. "Burning Heart "allows a rare glimpse into this world: the taste of cane ...
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