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Dogeaters. Dogeaters is a novel written by Jessica Hagedorn and published in 1990. Hagedorn also adapted her novel into a play by the same name. [1] Dogeaters, set in the late 1950s in Manila (the capital of the Philippines), addresses several social, political and cultural issues present in the Philippines during the 1950s.
It is the wartime winter of 1917, and the dog eaters of the title are the starving, impoverished and disease-ridden inhabitants of the Rupelstreek, a Belgian region to the south of Antwerp. The struggle to survive is desperately hard even away from the fighting at the front, and not everyone plays fair. In war there are no rules, and when it ...
—Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer “A shimmering, ferocious, funny, campy, disturbing, violent, benevolent, dazzling beast of a tale. Dogeaters was a joy to read the first time, but rereading it today made me realize Jessica Hagedorn is the divine mother goddess of novelists.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
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Mar 11, 2020 · Jessica Hagedorn Looks Back on the Legacy of ‘Dogeaters’. We talked to the author about the enduring influence of her now 30-year-old novel on life in Marcos-era Philippines. Noah Flora ...
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 ...
Jun 11, 2018 · Jessica Hagedorn is a Filipino author, poet, playwright, and a multimedia artist, born in the Philippines and migrated to the United States. She has written five novels Toxicology, Danger and Beauty, Dream Jungle, Gangsters of Love, and Dogeaters, and won the American Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Mar 1, 2022 · Dogeaters is an ambitious book which sets out to evoke the ugly and dispiriting mood of the infamous Marcos era in the Philippines, roughly the 1950s to the 1970s (the first specific date ...
