Balik-Tanaw sa pagtatanghal “Romansa ni Magno Rubio” (tags)
Magaan ang dating ngunit mabigat at madamdamin ang palabas o dulang “Romansa ni Magno Rubio” na itinatanghal ngayon sa Los Angeles. Bagamat sa Ingles ko napanood ang pagtatanghal, napanatili nito ang damdaming Pilipino. Mapusok, galit ngunit romantikong makapapangyarihang pagsasalarawan ng kalagayan ng mga manggagawang-bukid ( farm workers) na Pilipino sa panahon ng kolonya pa ng Amerika ang Pilipinas . Ibinatay ang dula sa isang maikling kwento ni Carlos Bulusan.
THE FILIPINO PEASANT IMAGINATION VERSUS AMERICAN LEFTISM (tags)
The following remarks are intended to supplement the author's paper "Blueprint for a Bulosan Project" posted in the online journal OUR OWN VOICE. This essay critiques the position of "leftists" in the elite U.S. academies who claim a "manifest destiny" to civilize colonized subalterns and peasant radicals like the Filipino writer Carlos Bulosan who (they claim) have failed to take "America" out of a transnationalizing U.S. Studies. Are we seeing a replay of the "Thomasites" who produced generations of neocolonized "little brown brothers" now serving U.S. imperialist aggression in Iraq, Aghanistan, Palestine, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and in the Philippines, its former direct colony? "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea...."