Raissa Rivera Falgui. Woman in a Frame. Quezon City: Adarna House, Inc., 2014. 180 pages.
Excerpt: If one of the goals of young adult writing is to educate and entertain readers, then Woman in a Frame is a success. In the figure of Marcela Simbulan, Raissa Rivera Falgui creates the Philippine equivalent of “Shakespeare’s sister,” and imagines what a native Filipino woman in the nineteent...
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Archīum Ateneo
2014
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| Online Access: | https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol4/iss2/4 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1120/viewcontent/PAHA_204.2_204_20Book_20reviews_20__20Chua.pdf |
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| Institution: | Ateneo De Manila University |
| Summary: | Excerpt: If one of the goals of young adult writing is to educate and entertain readers, then Woman in a Frame is a success. In the figure of Marcela Simbulan, Raissa Rivera Falgui creates the Philippine equivalent of “Shakespeare’s sister,” and imagines what a native Filipino woman in the nineteenth century would have had to go through if she wanted to be an artist. |
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