A Double-edged Reading of Gourlay’s Children Fiction Books: (Dis)Empowering the “Invisible” Filipino Community in the UK

• Main Author: Tan, Neslie Carol C.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Children’s/Young Adult Fiction; Filipinos in the UK; (Self-)Orientalism; Representation; Candy Gourlay
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss28/15; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2120/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n28_2017_5D_205.1_Monograph_Tan.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper conducts a double-edged reading of Candy Gourlay’s two children’s novels, Tall Story (2010) and Shine (2013). It argues that on the one hand, these two award-winning books empower the “invisible” community of Filipinos in the UK by foregrounding the “subalterns” and narrating (with subtle...