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LITERATURE IN ENGLISH BY FILIPINO WOMEN.

Feminist Studies

| March 22, 2000 | MANLAPAZ, EDNA ZAPANTA | COPYRIGHT 2000 Feminist Studies, Inc. 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 the late 1930s, a young Filipino woman named Trinidad Tarrosa Subido (1912-93) wrote the following lines in a poem entitled "Muted Cry":

They took away the language of my blood, giving me one "more widely understood."

More widely understood! Now Lips can never

Never with the Soul-in-Me commune:

Moments there are I strain, but futile ever,

To flute my feelings through some native Tune...

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