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In recent decades, Filipino/a American writers have become increasingly conscious of the gap between critical expectations and definitions inherited from culturally dominant societies and the literature which strives to develop ethnic and cultural identities. A sense of discontinuous history and cultural hybridization produced by a palimpsestic journey of imperialism, cultural imposition, diasporic movement, and assimilation obliges writers to work within a heterogeneous overlapping of cultures with their attendant myths, religious and ethical philosophies, aesthetic ideologies, narrative forms, political systems, and economic modes. Importantly, the creative production ...