Saroyan's Filipinos: Undoing Invisibility and Silence in Subaltern Spaces

• Main Author: Aguilera Linde, Mauricio D.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Saroyan’s fiction; Filipinos in the great depression; counter-hegemonic strategies of ethnic representation; boxing literature; ghetto pastoral
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss35/7; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1845/viewcontent/KK_2035_2C_202020_207_20Regular_20Section_20__20Linde.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Before John Fante’s stories about Filipinos and Carlos Bulosan’s autobiography were published, William Saroyan’s depiction of Filipino migrant workers provided one of the earliest representations of a minority doomed to invisibility and silence during the 1930s and 1940s. This article offers a caref...