Lives Away from Home and Precarious Writing as Life: Reading Bienvenido Santos’s Postscript to Saintly Life

• Main Author: Labayne, Ivan Emil A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: Philippine–American relations; pensionado system; diasporic writing; autobiography; post-colonialism; Creative Writing; Pacific Islands Languages and Societies; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol3/iss1/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1046/viewcontent/1_Labayne.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Towards the end of his writing career, Bienvenido Santos published two autobiographies, Memory’s Fictions and Postscript to Saintly Life—a departure in a writing life mostly devoted to penning fictional works. This paper focuses on the last autobiography which mainly looks at Santos’s experiences as...