We are no longer Babaylan
Subtitle: essays & stories
By: Elsa Valmidiano
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New Rivers Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Moorhead, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780898233971
Description: Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. We Are No Longer Babaylan is comprised of creative nonfiction lyrical prose, about family, origins, identity, and femininity. The collection explores the impact of colonialist patriarchal societies on the live and beliefs of those from a spiritual, matriarchal society; the impacts of these mystical and spiritual beliefs on today's feminist movement, on healing from trauma, and on remembering ancestors in an increasingly memory-less society. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Wait; title: How my grandparents made love in 1944; title: After the funeral; title: Massage; title: Sometime after 2 AM; title: We are no longer Babaylan; title: Mommy's two bellybuttons; title: Down the rabbit hole; title: Tbilisi; title: Every possible scenario; title: Diversion; title: The lover that never was; title: Blighted; title: Morning routine; title: Code switch; title: Be, not be; title: Gnat; title: Rain lesson; title: Lifesaver; title: Postcard.