Monthly Archives: April 2011
From PAWAINC: Carlos Bulosan in Poetry Magazine 1936
This just in from Barbara Jane Reyes, at PAWAINC: Carlos Bulosan’s poetry published in Poetry Magazine’s 1936 issue. Harriet Monroe was the editor.
Learning and Returning
The process of gathering information about Filipina/o writers from the early 20th century is subject to the variables of any life. Authors get sick, die; family members object to releasing information, or can’t be found; collectors hoard their materials like gold until they die, and their documents get tossed into the garbage; some people make [...]
Cultural Preservation as Activism: Ellen-Rae Cachola
Ellen Rae Cachola’s report, Manilatown Archival Project: Community Networks as Information Systems is now available online in Scribd. Excerpt: I realized the extensive human networks of the I-Hotel community. As part of the Manilatown team, we would set up events with other grassroots organizations or individuals who wanted to express issues or works that were [...]
Celebrating Reme Grefalda & Asian-Pacific Islander Collections
Thanks to the tireless efforts of writer/publisher/curator Reme Grefalda, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. now has over two dozen collections of Asian-Pacific Islander materials and books, of which Reme is the curator. Check out Erwin de Leon’s article, Hunter of Books for Asian American Immigrant Stories Finds A Home @ the Library of [...]
Scholarly & Creative Commons & the Common Wealth
I’ve been thinking lately (in a preliminary way) about the idea of the “commons” and what that might mean for research in Fil/Fil-Am literary history–keeping in mind the ongoing process of re-conceptualizing authorship, as the digital age overtakes us. In a blurb for a recent talk at the U. of Illinois Urbana/Champaign on “The Future [...]
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