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Title: Dusk: A Novel (Modern Library (Paperback)) by F. Sionil Jose ISBN: 0-375-75144-0 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: In Need of More Recognition
Comment: Initially, I intended to read Dusk simply in order to finish my research concerning Filipino Literature. When I completed reading this novel, however, I found myself more deeply reflective about my own history as a Filipino-American as well as the effects of Spanish colonization.
What Jose achieves in writing Dusk is a window: a window into the detrimental psychological and social effects of a people under oppression and assimilation. Within the confines of the novel itself, the characters shift and become symbols expressing the themes of loss, anger, and confusion. There is a lot to be learned from the characters and their fate: People can be forced into submission physically, but the spirit is made of an unbreakable bond. A people under oppression eventually break free.
Jose reclaims his Filipino heritage by recognizing the history that is a cornerstone to most modern perceptions and attitudes. This book is a definite piece to read in re/constructing one's knowledge of the Philippines, its history, or simply as a tool to understanding the overall impact of oppression/colonization.
This book is a great resource, and moving piece of literature. If you are a fan of Jose's work, share these same ideas, or curious about these issues just as much as I am then feel free to e-mail me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Reading on Filipino History
Comment: If you are a Filipino-American, and you desire to read something of substance about Filipino history. This is it! Granted it is fiction, but the characters speak their own voices that you can't help but wonder if it really did happen that way.
Some Spanish-Filipinos may not completely like the author's representation of the Spaniards in this book (and his others). But it does speak to the heart of national pride that Filipinos have everywhere. And brings a certian dignity to native Filipinos of long ago.
Definitely worth the read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Yawn
Comment: I just couldn't get interested in the subject of this book or any of the characters. Reading it was like swimming in molasses. Perhaps it was the foreign setting that turned me off. The language was unremarkable. Obviously, I did not find in this book what the other reviewers did.
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Title: Don Vicente: Two Novels (Modern Library (Paperback)) by F. Sionil Jose ISBN: 0375752439 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe ISBN: 0142002887 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: When the Rainbow Goddess Wept (An Ann Arbor Paperback) by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ISBN: 0472086375 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Noli Me Tangere (Shaps Library of Translations) by Jose P. Rizal, Soledad Lacson-Locsin, Raul L. Locsin ISBN: 0824819179 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Magdalena by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ISBN: 1891386298 Publisher: Plain View Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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