The Alien, the Citizen, and the Triumphant Capitalist

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Gonzales, Gloria G.
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• الموضوعات: Chinese Filipino Literature; Cultural Studies; Diaspora Studies; Migration; Philippine Literature; Transnationalism
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss25/25; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1663/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n25_2015_5D_207.1_Monograph_Gonzales.pdf
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper examines notions of the “alien” and the “citizen” or the outsider and insider based on the Chinese Filipino experience as portrayed in Charlson Ong’s novel Banyaga: The Song of War (2006). Although the Chinese have lived in the Philippine archipelago since the twelfth century, they have a...