Abstract

essica Hagedorn's 1990 novel Dogeaters occupies a prominent position within the U.S. academy as the best known and most widely taught novel about the Philippines. The novel has proven resonant with contemporary critics because of the various theoretical connections it suggests. Its kaleidoscopic multiplicity of narratives, set in a former colony of the United States, as well as Hagedorn's status as a Filipino American author writing about the Philippines, has facilitated productive linkages between postcolonial theory and theories of postmodernism; American Studies and postcolonial theory; Asian American Studies and theories of transnationalism. A number of critics have

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