Author: Precy Espiritu
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: ilokano, speak
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1984-12-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0824808223
ISBN-13: 9780824808228

Author: Augusto Espiritu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: intellectuals, asian, america, american, filipino, faces, exile, nation, five
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-03-09
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0804751218
ISBN-13: 9780804751216

Colonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More specifically, it explores American empire in the Philippines and its ethnic and racial dimensions in the United States through a close reading of the texts and social practices of five pioneering, trans-Pacific Filipino American writers of the colonial era: the diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, the poet Jose Garcia Villa, fiction writers N. V. M. Gonzalez a

Author: Jaime Espiritu
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: novel, message
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2005-04-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0595347150
ISBN-13: 9780595347155

A disgruntled federal worker with top-secret clearance decides to get even with his bosses by selling critical security data to America’s enemies, resulting in horrifying consequences to the U.S. Government. It also brings into play Omar Husain, a faceless, nameless master terrorist, known only by the FBI code-name Saladin. Consumed by hatred the day he lost his entire family including Kamilah, his fianceé, in southern Lebanon during the ’82 Arab-Israeli war, he commits himself to the Jihad. Out of the ruins of his life, he carries a relic of his love for Kamilah whose mother is a Chris