A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (19111956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the U.S. preWorld War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosans semiautobiographical novel America is in the Heart begins with the narrators rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of landpoor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s. Carloss experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the American dream. Bulosan was one of the most important 20th century social critics with his deeply moving account of what it was like to be criminalized in the U.S. as a Filipino migrant drawn to the ideals of what America symbolized and committed to social justice for all marginalized groups.Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039) East Goes West by Younghill Kang...

Binding: Paperback;384 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FC; Weight: 384 g; Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 13

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