The Disinherited (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Han Ong
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2000-2001
- Setting: Manila, rural Philippines, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Roger Caracera, Jesus Caracera, Irene Caracera, Virginia Duhamel, Pitik Sindit, Donny Osmond Magulay, Benjamin Goyanos, Roberto Caracera, Cielito Caracera
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Social work, Poverty or poor people, Inheritance or succession, Money, Philippines or Filipinos, Sugar, Plays or playwrights, 2000’s
- Locales: New York, NY, Manila, Philippines
In his second novel, The Disinherited, celebrated playwright Han Ong gives readers a tour of Philippine society through the eyes of a Filipino American writer, Roger Caracera. The view is harsh, frequently disgusting, sometimes plaintive, and overridden by a theme: that during its misconceived, chauvinistic stewardship, the United States impressed upon the Philippines a mawkish, tawdry, self-defeating image of itself. In fact, it is the American-raised Caracera (Spanish for “wax face”) who symbolizes this U.S.-Philippines relationship in his quixotic attempts to work justice...
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