Carlos Bulosan on Writing: The Role of Letters

• Main Authors: Alquizola, Marilyn C., Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: America Is in the Heart as minor literature; Bulosan’s letters; Carlos Bulosan; Carlos Bulosan on writing and art; political writing; politics and writing
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss23/10; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1583/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n23_2014_5D_203.1.2_ForumKritika_ArchivalAnchors_Alquizola_Hirabayashi.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Two themes from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s study, Kafka Toward a Minor Literature, serve as an inspiration for this rumination on Carlos Bulosan’s 1955 letter to Florentino B. Valeros about writing and the responsibilities of the writer. Because Bulosan was an inherently political writer, h...