Dogeaters
From AwardAnnals
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| Author(s) | Jessica Hagedorn |
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| Publisher | Penguin Books |
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| In Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her best-selling novel about the Philippines during the Marcos reign into an equally powerful theatrical piece that is a multilayered, operatic tour de force. As Harold Bloom writes “Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between cultures…she takes aim at racism in the U.S. and develops in her dramas the themes of displacement and the search for belonging.” | |
In Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her best-selling novel about the Philippines during the Marcos reign into an equally powerful theatrical piece that is a multilayered, operatic tour de force. As Harold Bloom writes “Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between cultures…she takes aim at racism in the U.S. and develops in her dramas the themes of displacement and the search for belonging.”
