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Introduction: have come, are here: reading Filipino/a American literature.(Editorial)

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| March 22, 2004 | Davis, Rocio G. | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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