An Orosipon kan Bikolnon

An Orosipon kan Bikolnon

BUY THIS BOOK An Orosipon kan Bikolnon: Interrupting the Philippine Nation If the monologic force of narration produces a nation, orosipon, an old Bikol word for story, interrupts this production by telling a different story or different stories. Coming from the root...
Halakhak

Halakhak

BUY THIS BOOK Halakhak: National Humor in Philippine Popular Cultural Forms HALAKHAK is an examination of how humor is deployed in Philippine popular cultural forms, a response to the paucity of studies in which Filipino humor is analyzed. In attempting to provide a...
Southern Stories and Strays

Southern Stories and Strays

BUY THIS BOOK Southern Stories and Strays This collection of fiction and nonfiction pieces is peopled by women who live or come from Mindanao, that “faraway” place in the Philippine South known for its political wars and religious strife. But this book is not about...