Bøger af Carlos Bulosan

The Laughter of My Father is a memoir written by Carlos Bulosan, an immigrant from the Philippines who moved to the United States in the 1930s. The book recounts Bulosan's experiences growing up in poverty in the Philippines and his journey to America in search of a better life.Bulosan's memoir is a poignant and powerful exploration of the immigrant experience in America. He describes the struggles and hardships he faced as a Filipino immigrant, including racism, discrimination, and poverty. Despite these challenges, Bulosan remains optimistic and hopeful, inspired by the laughter of his father, who taught him to find joy in even the most difficult of circumstances.Throughout the book, Bulosan reflects on his own experiences as an immigrant and the experiences of other Filipino immigrants he has met. He also explores the broader social and political issues facing immigrants in America, including the struggle for civil rights and the fight against imperialism.The Laughter of My Father is a moving and inspiring memoir that offers a unique perspective on the immigrant experience in America. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of immigration and the struggles faced by those who come to America in search of a better life.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

In this mystery thriller set at the end of World War II, American Gar Stanley returns to his native Philippines to help his childhood sweetheart locate her missing husband in the wake of a Japanese ambush. With Clem's ring as his only clue, Gar moves from the nightclubs of Manila to the mountains of Baguio, from mansions to hovels, bordellos to churches. He pursues and is pursued by bankers, matrons, hoboes, warriors, and thugs. Gar quickly realizes that no one is who they seem in this war-ravaged country. He must move quickly to stay ahead of the deadly conspirators before they silence his friend.Bulosan's purposely mysterious authorship is illuminated in the thought-provoking introduction by Caroline S. Hau and Benedict Anderson. The short story "The Filipino Houseboy," also included in this volume, helps to establish Bulosan as the author of All the Conspirators.

Describes author's boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.

A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the U.S. pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck''s The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan''s semi-autobiographical novel America is in the Heart begins with the narrator''s rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s. Carlos''s experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the American dream. Bulosan was one of the most important 20th century social critics with his deeply moving account of what it was like to be criminalized in the U.S. as a Filipino migrant drawn to the ideals of what America symbolized and committed to social justice for all marginalized groups.Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics:   America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039) East Goes West by Younghill Kang (9780143134305) The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022)

Dramatizes the resourcefulness, cunning, and pain of the Filipino peasants' struggle against a heritage of colonization, first by Spain and later by the United States. This title is set during the political upheavals of the 1940s and 1950s.