The Struggle Over Race, Class, Nationality & Gender: Social Dynamics and United Front Politics in Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70922/wpf2pk30

Abstract

Deploying a historical-materialist perspective, this essay analyzes the intersection of various thematic strands in the text of Bulosan ‘s masterpiece, America is in the Heart. The result is that novel is not just an immigrant narrative of success, but an acute dramatic rending of the class-racial struggle of Filipinos for national self-determination translated into the united-front politics of the Depression and the years before World War II. This unorthodox interpretation challenges the hegemonic appraisal of the novel that sanitizes its radical politics.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

  • E. San Juan, Jr., University of Connecticut

    PROF. EPIFANIO SAN JUAN is currently emeritus professor of English, Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies, University of Connecticut, and professorial lecturer at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Sta. Mesa, Manila. His latest books are Between Empire and Insurgency (University of the
    Philippines Press), Learning from the Filipino Diaspora (University of Santo Tomas Press), Wala: Mga Tula & Akda (Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press) and the Filipinas Everywhere (De La Salle University Press).

Downloads

Published

2020-11-26

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2018): Social Sciences and Development Review

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2025 E. San Juan, Jr. (Author)

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

The Struggle Over Race, Class, Nationality & Gender: Social Dynamics and United Front Politics in Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart. (2020). Social Sciences and Development Review, 10(1), 29-45. https://doi.org/10.70922/wpf2pk30