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Mar 11, 2020 · The collapse of the Manila Film Center inspires a central episode in Jessica Hagedorn’s 1990 novel Dogeaters, which was published 30 years ago this month.As it happens, Hagedorn was at the ...
Nov 15, 2013 · In Dogeaters, there is no middle class — only the extremely rich and the extremely poor. The book, set in the late 1950s in Manila, begins with the story of Rio Gonzaga, the daughter of a ...
The hallucinatory vision of this colonial world—the crucible of the innocent, the rapacious, the collaborators, the oblivious, the martyred—feels flawless, irrefutable. Hagedorn writes with exhilarating stylistic dexterity, deep compassion, humor that ranges from gentle and affectionate to fire-breathing, and immense grace.
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Jan 1, 1990 · My very first time to read a novel by Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949), a Philippine-born American novelist, playwright, poet and multimedia performance artist. I purchased my copy of this book in 2010 but postponed reading this several times because of what a friend said that it is similar to Miguel Syjuco's Ilustrado (2 stars).
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Dogeaters is a 1990 novel by Jessica Hagedorn set in the Philippines of the turbulent 1950s and 60s. Young Rio Gonzaga narrates the story of her and her cousin Pucha’s families, who are friends ...
Hagedorn's polemical anti-novel novel is a tough, mean-tasting book that wants to be honest about political corruption but is so single-minded and narrow-voiced that it cannot. I want to say good things about such experimental fiction, its brashness, its descriptive energy, its deft portrait of Filipino life under Yankee cultural domination.
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Dogeaters. Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest ...