The Making of Jose Garcia Villa's Footnote to Youth

• Main Author: Chua, Jonathan O
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2013
• Subjects: Philippine literature in English; book history; postcolonialism; exotic; author; Comparative Literature; Creative Writing; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/16; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=is-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...