Transition and Obliteration: Jose Garcia Villa in the United States

• Main Author: Chua, Jonathan O
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: Jose Garcia Villa; Asian American Literature; Philippine Literature; Orientalism; International and Area Studies; Modern Literature; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/42; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=is-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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 sub...