Jessica Hagedorn (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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Born and raised in the Philippines, Jessica Hagedorn experienced the United States through
the eyes of her mother and through images provided by American textbooks and movies.
“The colonization of our imagination was relentless,” she has said. Only when she
started living in California in 1963 did she begin to appreciate what was precious in the Filipino
extended family, a cultural feature partially left behind. In California, she began to feel allied with
persons of various national origins who challenged American myths. [The entire page is 1064 words long]
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