Immigration Blues | Historical Context
Filipino Literature in English
The first Filipino literature published in English in the United States was in the early 1930s, a decade before Santos’s arrival in the country. The writer who made this breakthrough was José Garcia Villa (1914–1997), whose poems and stories were published by Scribner’s in 1933 as Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others. Villa lived in the United States, and his short stories, which were highly praised by critics, were included in Best American Short Stories of 1932 and Best American Short Stories of...
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