scholarly journals Reading Carlos Bulosan/Documenting the Filipino Diaspora

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao
Keyword(s):  
Filipino Diaspora ◽  
Carlos Bulosan

The Work of Mothering

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrod J. Suarez
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Jessica Hagedorn ◽  
Filipino Diaspora ◽  
Carlos Bulosan ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Alternative Practices ◽  
The Relationship

The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora argues for a strict relationship between the world-historical situation of the Philippines under empire, nationalism, and globalization and the phenomenon of overseas domestic labor, drawing on the contours that inform the latter but arguing that it is part of a much larger framework of nurture, care, and service structuring the relationship between the postcolonial Philippines and the world. It analyzes maternal figures in novels by Carlos Bulosan, Jessica Hagedorn, and Brian Ascalon Roley; short stories by Nick Joaquin and Mia Alvar; poems by Luisa Igloria; and a film by Kidlat Tahimik. By developing incisive readings of subtle, passing moments in these texts, The Work of Mothering opens up narratives within which the cultural, political, and economic logics of overseas Filipina/o migration, especially but not only domestic labor, emerges. It does so by advancing an archipelagic reading practice that addresses diasporic literatures and cultures without reinscribing them either within nationalist or global paradigms. In doing so, it draws crucially on debates within the sociology of globalization and cultural studies, offering a critical and innovative vantage point that identifies alternative practices of the maternal, pushing up against the historical and political conditions that manage Filipina/o identity for nationalism and globalization.

Existentialism in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Mangrum
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Ann Petry ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Mccarthy Era ◽  
Carlos Bulosan ◽  
Second World

This chapter examines the transformation of postwar liberalism by identifying the development of an American idiom within the existential thought that became influential after the Second World War. I frame the concerns and historical development of American existentialism through the work of Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, and Stanley Donen’s film Funny Face (starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire). Contrasts are drawn between Ellison and two other writers: Carlos Bulosan and Ann Petry. In addition, the chapter discuses Cold War containment politics, McCarthy era anxieties about communism, changes in perceptions of organized labor, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and cultural attitudes regarding the American welfare state and political action.

BAHALA NA: In Search of an “Ordinary Theology” for the Filipino Diaspora

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-252
Author(s):  
Rowan Lopez Rebustillo
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
The Real ◽  
Filipino Diaspora ◽  
The World ◽  
Filipino Migrants ◽  
Real Essence

Abstract In the contemporary theological landscape Filipino theology has remained marginal compared to Latin-American theologies. Hence, this paper attempts to present Bahala Na as a Filipino articulation of Astley’s Ordinary Theology in the context of Filipino diaspora. With this, we assert that the importance of ordinary Filipino migrants’ input in the current theological enterprise cannot be overlooked because the churches in the world are now phenomenally populated by the millions of Filipinos who possess a unique faith that has sustained them amidst the precariousness of their diasporic life. We believe that ignorance of this inculturated theology is ignorance of the real essence of “catholic” theology.

Poems by Carlos Bulosan

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Carlos Bulosan
Keyword(s):  
Carlos Bulosan

Diasporic media and migrant worker consumerism: Thematic critique of magazine advertisements for the Filipino community in Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-258
Author(s):  
Francis Raymond Calbay
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Filipino Diaspora ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
Financial Burdens

The financial burdens of Filipino migrant workers are exacerbated by the lure of miscellaneous consumer goods peddled to them by businesses looking for a lucrative share of their remittances. This study examines a profit-oriented model of diasporic media that directly serves the business interests of its publisher and its advertisers. It analyses the Taiwan-based EEC Now magazine and criticizes the duplicity of its proclaimed mission of ‘Caring for Migrant Workers Now and in the Future’. Through a thematic analysis of advertisements published in selected issues of EEC Now, the study reveals the consumerist ideology espoused by the magazine: the commodification of the migrant worker’s body, the obligatory sending of balikbayan (repatriate) cargo boxes and cash remittances and the search for the next overseas destination. Applying concepts from Baudrillard’s theory of consumer society and San Juan’s critique of Filipino diaspora formation, the themes from the analysis reveal how profit-oriented diasporic media reflect social inequities and service the global capitalist system that ultimately spawned labour migration.

Agriculture and Asian American Literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah D. Wald
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Asian American Literature ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Alternative Food Movement ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
Asian American History ◽  
Carlos Bulosan ◽  
Hisaye Yamamoto

Agriculture is a significant yet understudied theme in Asian American literature. Representations of farming in Asian American literature often respond to and engage with agriculture’s important role in Asian American history. As farmers and as farm laborers, Asian Americans have been pivotal to US agriculture, and this agricultural experience was foundational to the formation of Asian American communities in the period prior to World War II. Additionally, literary representations of agriculture in Asian American literature navigate racialized traditions of American pastoral and Jeffersonian agrarianism. They have often done so in ways that highlight the systems of racial and economic exploitation at work in US society and position US agribusiness in relationship to US colonialism and neo-colonialism. Consequently, Asian American literature’s representations of farming can expose the assumptions around race, property, and citizenship at work in the agrarianism of the 21st-century US alternative food movement. The writings of Carlos Bulosan, Hisaye Yamamoto, and David Mas Masumoto provide case studies of these trends.

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