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Looking in on Filipino 'Literature'

Cornelius Buckley

Discipline: Philippine Literature

 

Abstract:

~Glassed in a dream,' I look in on you.

Preconceptions obscuring my view:

Tropical, exotic, new; coconut trees abow,

"Ilang-ilang blossoms"; "Madikat, Manilla and the gulfs".

I shall not orientalise, dissect you.