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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
- Asian American Literature In Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Transitions Approached through Concepts and History
- Part II Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History
- Chapter 8 Lin Yutang and the Invention of Asian America, 1949
- Chapter 9 H. T. Tsiang Against the World
- Chapter 10 “A Congressman from India”
- Chapter 11 Younghill Kang, Transpacific Agent
- Chapter 12 Transition and Obliteration
- Chapter 13 America Is in the Heart as Postcolonial Pastoral
- Chapter 14 Bienvenido Santos
- Chapter 15 Women Writing War in Asia/America
- Chapter 16 Japanese Incarceration, Settler Colonialism
- Chapter 17 Jade Snow Wong and the Making of Model Minority Democracy
- Chapter 18 A Little Bit of Form Goes a Long Way
- Chapter 19 Richard Eun-kook Kim
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 12 - Transition and Obliteration
Jose Garcia Villa in the United States
from Part II - Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
- Asian American Literature In Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Transitions Approached through Concepts and History
- Part II Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History
- Chapter 8 Lin Yutang and the Invention of Asian America, 1949
- Chapter 9 H. T. Tsiang Against the World
- Chapter 10 “A Congressman from India”
- Chapter 11 Younghill Kang, Transpacific Agent
- Chapter 12 Transition and Obliteration
- Chapter 13 America Is in the Heart as Postcolonial Pastoral
- Chapter 14 Bienvenido Santos
- Chapter 15 Women Writing War in Asia/America
- Chapter 16 Japanese Incarceration, Settler Colonialism
- Chapter 17 Jade Snow Wong and the Making of Model Minority Democracy
- Chapter 18 A Little Bit of Form Goes a Long Way
- Chapter 19 Richard Eun-kook Kim
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Jose Garcia Villa (1908–1997) was a pioneering Filipino writer in the United States and a key figure in the history of Anglophone Filipino literature. His troubled relations with the literary establishment in the Philippines made him seek acceptance in the US literary world, which, as a colonial subject, he had taken as the summit of validation. As this review of his publication history in the United States shows, however, his foreignness hounded him. While Villa took steps to transition into someone other than a Filipino writer, he could only be accepted in the US literary scene on Orientalist terms – that is, as a subordinate or an imperfect copy of his American originals – and was dispensable.
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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965 , pp. 214 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021