ESL or You Weren't Here

Type

Book

Authors

Valdez ( Aldrin Valdez )

ISBN 10

1937658864

ISBN 13

9781937658861

Tags

Poetry, Asian American, Asian, Family

Description

ESL or You Weren’t Here tells the story of a queer Pinoy who immigrates to New York in the 1990s in order to be reunited with their parents. What follows is the poet’s awakening to the legacy of American imperialism & colonialism in the Philippines, and to the experience of living between languages, cultures, temporalities, and genders―untranslatable. ESLasks the reader to bear witness to embodied histories of forced immigration, separation and abandonment rooted in patriarchal racism. - from Amzon

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