To Love As Aswang

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  • To Love As Aswang Book Detail

  • Author : Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Release Date : 2015-10
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  • Genre : American poetry
  • Pages : 94
  • ISBN 13 : 9780976331681
  • File Size : 55,55 MB

To Love As Aswang by Barbara Jane Reyes PDF Summary

Book Description: The Philippine Aswang is a mythic, monstrous creature which has, since colonial times, been associated with female transgression, scapegoating, and social shaming, known in Tagalog as hiya. In the 21st century, and in diaspora, she manages to endure.Barbara Jane Reyes's To Love as Aswang, the poet and a circle of Filipino american women grapple with what it means to live as a Filipina, Pinay,in a world that has silenced, dehumanized, and broken the Pinay body. These poems of PInay tragedy and perseverance, of reappropriating monstrosity and hiya, sung in polyphony and hissed with forked tongues.

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