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Gina Apostol
Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines’ present and America’s past by the PEN Open Book Award'winning author of Gun Dealer’s Daughter.
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First published by University of Philippines Press –Title page verson.
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Rosario, a Filipina novelist in New York City, has just learned of her mother's death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home, she puts off her return by embarking on…
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At university in Manila, young, bookish Soledad Soliman falls in with radical friends, defying her wealthy parents and their society crowd. Drawn in by two romantic young rebels, Sol initiates…
A critical, satirical take on Philippine-American history, a powerful contribution to the postcolonial canon, and a fearless exploration of the limits of metafiction, Insurrecto is a novel about women -…
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The first ever US publication of Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award winning novel.
Gina Apostol’s elliptical, incandescent new novel pieces together a century and a half of Philippine history through the story of a single family over generations of colonization, war and catastrophe.
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A critical, satirical take on Philippine-American history, a powerful contribution to the postcolonial canon, and a fearless exploration of the limits of metafiction, INSURRECTO is a novel about women -…
With fiction by Gina Apostol, Mircea Cartarescu (translated by Sean Cotter) and Itamar Vieira Junior (translated by Johnny Lorenz), non-fiction by Ariel Saramandi, interviews with Siri Hustvedt, Sara Ahmed, Bani…
This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements…
