Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt

JEFFREY ARELLANO CABUSAO is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Bryant University (Smithfield, Rhode Island). He received a 2011 Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). His teaching and research focus on U.S. Ethnic Studies (specifically comparative approaches to Asian American and African American Studies), Cultural Studies (literary and cultural theory, critical pedagogies), and Women’s Studies (feminist movement and social change).

Introduction
Part I. Bulosan’s Voice: Listening to the Manong Generation
1.Bulosan Now (1958)
Alvaro Cardona-Hine
2.Carlos Bulosan: Gentle Genius (1957)
Dolores Stephens Feria
3.The Achievement of Carlos Bulosan (1979)
E. San Juan, Jr.
Part II. Location of Exile: Creating an Alter/native Filipino Literary Practice
4.Filipino Writers in Exile (1963)
Dolores Stephens Feria
5.Understanding the Dynamics of Third World Writing in America Is in the Heart (1988)
Margarita R. Orendain
6.Subversion or Affirmation: The Text and Subtext of America Is in the Heart (1991)
Marilyn Alquizola
7.Satire in The Laughter of My Father (1986)
Delfin Tolentino, Jr.
8.The Laughter of My Father: A Survival Kit (1995)
L.M. Grow
9.The Laughter of My Father: Adding Feminist and Class Perspectives to the “Casebook of Resistance” (2011)
Marilyn Alquizola and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Part III. Writer as Worker: Broadening the Bulosan Canon
10.Carlos Bulosan: The Poetics and the Necessity of Revolution (1969)
E. San Juan, Jr.
11.Bulosan as a Third World Poet (1985)
Susan Evangelista
12.Two Letters from America: Carlos Bulosan and the Act of Writing (1988)
Oscar V. Campomanes and Todd S. Gernes
13.Bulosan’s Power, Bulosan’s People (1991)
Dolores Stephens Feria
14.A Proletarian Book of Laughter and Remembering: The Cry and the Dedication and the Inter/National Class Struggle (2016)
Tim Libretti
Part IV. Collective Memory and Revolt: Becoming Filipino – Becoming Free
15.Remembering Carlos: An Interview with Josephine Patrick (1989)
Odette Taverna
16.Identity and Humanity in the Age of Corporate Globalization: A Review Essay (2004)
Kenneth E. Bauzon
17.Filipino American Hip Hop and Class Consciousness: Renewing the Spirit of Carlos Bulosan (2006)
Michael Viola
18.The Bulosan Files: Another Layer in an Ongoing Dialogue (2016)
Marilyn Alquizola, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, and Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao
19.Carlos Bulosan: Critique and Revolution (2008)
E. San Juan, Jr.
20.American Dream: The Habitable Land (2016)
Melba Abela
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