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Our literary matriarchs, 1925-1953: Angela Manalang Gloria, Paz M. Latorena, Loreto Paras Sulit, and Paz Marquez Benitez

Our literary matriarchs, 1925-1953: Angela Manalang Gloria, Paz M. Latorena, Loreto Paras Sulit, and Paz Marquez Benitez

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Our literary matriarchs, 1925-1953: Angela Manalang Gloria, Paz M. Latorena, Loreto Paras Sulit, and Paz Marquez Benitez

Our literary matriarchs, 1925-1953: Angela Manalang Gloria, Paz M. Latorena, Loreto Paras Sulit, and Paz Marquez Benitez

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From the "...I discovered what I really wanted to not the grand narrative of Filipino women writers but the personal stories of four of them--Paz Marquez Benitez (1894-1983), whose story, 'Dead Stars,' published in 1925, is the first modern short story in Philippine literature; Paz Latorena (1908-1953); and Loreto Paras Sulit (1908- ), whose stories were regularly cited in Jose Garcia Villa's annual Honor Roll of Stories, 1926-1940; and Angela Manalang Gloria (1907-1995), whose Poems (1940) was the first published collection of poems by a Filipino woman... Though the particular of their lives differ dramatically, their stories are variation of the same plot discernible in the life stories of all women the incessant search for a private space within which to write, a room of one's own."

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Imprint Ateneo de Manila University Press
Released 1996
Identifier (ISBN) 1653670
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