Her Wild American Self
By: by M. Evelina Galang
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: April 1, 1996
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781566890403
Subjects: Filipino American women -- Fiction.; Women -- United States -- Fiction.; Filipino Americans -- Fiction.
Description: Stories on Filipina Americans, exploring what it is to be American and female. Our Fathers describes a daughter's reaction upon seeing her father, a lawyer, work in the U.S. as a busboy, while The Look-Alike Women, is on white men's simplistic perceptions of Oriental women.
Table of contents: title: The look-alike women; title: Rose colored; title: Talk to me, Milagros; title: Baby lust; title: Her wild American self; title: Lectures on how you never lived back home; title: Figures; title: Our fathers; title: Contravida; title: Miss Teenage Sampaguita; title: Filming sausage; title: Mix like stir fry.