Excavating the Bulosan Ruins: What is at Stake in Re-Discovering the Anti-Imperialist Writing in the Age of US Global Terrorism?

• Main Author: San Juan, E., Jr.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Framework of intelligibility for Bulosan’s ethico-political project; Immigrant assimilationist paradigm in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies; Sanora Babb archive – Harry Ransom Center Library at the University of Texas; US-Philippine colonial and neocolonial relations
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss23/9; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1582/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n23_2014_5D_203.1.1_ForumKritika_ArchivalAnchors_SanJuanJr..pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Based on research in the unpublished papers of Sanora Babb at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, this essay uncovers new information about Bulosan’s relations with Sanora and her sister Dorothy Babb, the two American women who virtually “made” him into a writer. Given his intimacy with bo...