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

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...