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1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 26 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Ramón de Ocampo. |
| Summary |
A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the US pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s.Carlos' experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities, and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the American dream. Bulosan was one of the most important twentieth-century social critics with his deeply moving account of what it was like to be criminalized in the US as a Filipino migrant drawn to the ideals of what America symbolized and committed to social justice for all marginalized groups. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Bulosan, Carlos -- Fiction.
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Filipino Americans -- Fiction.
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Filipino American migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
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Racism -- United States -- Fiction.
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Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
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Philippines -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Autobiographical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Cabusao, Jeffrey Arellano, writer of supplementary textual content.
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San Juan, E. (Epifanio), Jr., 1938- writer of introduction.
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Castillo, Elaine, writer of foreword.
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Ocampo, Ramon de, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982637293 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982637293 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12359150 |
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