A double-edged reading of Gourlay’s children fiction books: (Dis)empowering the “invisible” Filipino community in the UK

This paper conducts a double-edged reading of Candy Gourlay’s two children’s novels, Tall Story (2010) and Shine (2013). It argues that on the one hand, these two award-winning books empower the “invisible” community of Filipinos in the UK by foregrounding the “subalterns” and narrating (with subtle...

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Main Author: Tan, Neslie Carol C.
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Published: Animo Repository 2017
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Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3855
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Institution: De La Salle University