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Chapter 1 - José Garcia Villa’s Sojourn in New Mexico

Rethinking the Geographies of Latinidad

from Part I - Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2025

By
Paula C. Park
Edited by
John Alba Cutler  and
Marissa López
John Alba Cutler
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Marissa López
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Summary

Before the categories of Latino/a or Hispanic were adopted in academia and literary criticism in the United States, Latinx writers were often (mis)placed within a wide and ambiguous “Spanish” literary scene. This chapter explores how this tendency also extended to Filipinx American writers. It centers on José Garcia Villa’s early years in the United States, in particular the semi-autobiographical short stories in Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933), wherein he reflects on his experience as a young Filipino American writer and finds continuities between the Philippines and New Mexico.

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Filipinx AmericanPhilippinesorientalismAsian LatinxJosé Garcia Villa
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Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848–1992 , pp. 19 - 36
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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