Abstract
Thisarticle examines the newspaper Silangan, published in Winnipeg, Canada, from February 1977 to July 1982, to analyze the negotiation of Filipino identity in the diaspora. Over its six-year run, the columns in this newspaper dealt with issues of cultural maintenance, the importance of Filipino heritage, and political engagement in their adoptive homeland. A critical dialogue argued in support of certain aspects of life from the Philippines, such as extravagant pageantry and corrupt political practices. In discursively forming a Filipino Self, this ethnic newspaper created a number of Others, the most startling of which was the (transgressing) national Filipino.KEYWORDS: FILIPINO DIASPORA • IMMIGRATION • ETHNIC MEDIA • IDENTITY • CANADA
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Malek, Jon G.
(2019)
"Silangan Rising: Crafting the Filipino Self and the Other in the Diaspora,"
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints: Vol. 67:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol67/iss1/3
