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Author(s): Park, Paula C. | Abstract: Jose Garcia Villa’s Silent Tongue Tie: Hispanic Resonances in FilipinoAmerican Literature

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  • In a 1937 radio address, Commonwealth President Manuel L

  • A generation of Filipino writers of Spanish emerged during what critics tend to call “the Golden Age of Philippine literature in Spanish,” which roughly covers the first four decades of the twentieth century

  • In a poem titled “A Hispania” (1913), poet Fernando María Guerrero praises the Spanish language for its beauty and hints at its potential to counteract the spread of English: “mi raza adoró la gloria / del bello idioma

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TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Title José García Villa’s Silent Tongue Tie: Hispanic Resonances in Filipino American Literature. Journal TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 3(1)

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