The Making of Jose Garcia Villa's Footnote to Youth

This article recounts the story behind the publication of Villa’s stories and his book Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933) in the United States. First, the conditions of the American literary marketplace are briefly described. Second, documents pertaining to the realizatio...

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Main Author: Chua, Jonathan O
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.is-faculty-pubs-10152020-07-02T08:41:48Z The Making of Jose Garcia Villa's Footnote to Youth Chua, Jonathan O This article recounts the story behind the publication of Villa’s stories and his book Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933) in the United States. First, the conditions of the American literary marketplace are briefly described. Second, documents pertaining to the realization in print of Villa’s stories and his book are analyzed as sites of negotiations between colonial subject (Villa) and the colonial master (his American editors and publishers). Finally, an account of how Villa was made to circulate in the Philippines after the publication of his stories and his book in the United States is given. From these discussions the article hopes to show that Villa’s self-fashioning by publication was both subject to and critical of the colonial condition, alternately reinforcing it and challenging it. 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/16 https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=is-faculty-pubs Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Philippine literature in English book history postcolonialism exotic author Comparative Literature Creative Writing Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
institution Ateneo De Manila University
building Ateneo De Manila University Library
country Philippines
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topic Philippine literature in English
book history
postcolonialism
exotic
author
Comparative Literature
Creative Writing
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
spellingShingle Philippine literature in English
book history
postcolonialism
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Comparative Literature
Creative Writing
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Chua, Jonathan O
The Making of Jose Garcia Villa's Footnote to Youth
description This article recounts the story behind the publication of Villa’s stories and his book Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933) in the United States. First, the conditions of the American literary marketplace are briefly described. Second, documents pertaining to the realization in print of Villa’s stories and his book are analyzed as sites of negotiations between colonial subject (Villa) and the colonial master (his American editors and publishers). Finally, an account of how Villa was made to circulate in the Philippines after the publication of his stories and his book in the United States is given. From these discussions the article hopes to show that Villa’s self-fashioning by publication was both subject to and critical of the colonial condition, alternately reinforcing it and challenging it.
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