To Love As Aswang
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| Author | : Barbara Jane Reyes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2015-10 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0976331683 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780976331681 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis To Love As Aswang by : Barbara Jane Reyes
Book excerpt: The Philippine Aswang is a mythic, monstrous creature which has, since colonial times, been associated with female transgression, scapegoating, and social shaming, known in Tagalog as hiya. In the 21st century, and in diaspora, she manages to endure.Barbara Jane Reyes's To Love as Aswang, the poet and a circle of Filipino american women grapple with what it means to live as a Filipina, Pinay,in a world that has silenced, dehumanized, and broken the Pinay body. These poems of PInay tragedy and perseverance, of reappropriating monstrosity and hiya, sung in polyphony and hissed with forked tongues.
