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...girl, who comes to Manila to work as a servant for Zamora L?pez de Legazpi, a rich man who claims to have discovered a group of Stone Age cave dwellers in the country's south. (Hagedorn's inspiration for this plot line is the real-life "discovery" of the Tasaday tribe in 1971, later denounced as a hoax.) Rizalina concludes that Zamora has become uncomfortably enamored with her, and she runs away to become a dancer in a seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American actor who has abandoned his family to work on the crew...
...intimate, gossipy feel of Dogeaters, and its two story lines never manage to cohere. Although Hagedorn is clearly engaged with the effect of Spanish and American colonialism on her homeland, the reader wonders about her motive in basing the book on these two historical episodes. In the Philippines, the Tasaday saga is largely remembered for the international publicity?and later embarrassment?it wrought. Apocalypse Now was the next watershed of attention from abroad. Perhaps Hagedorn believes that foreign readers?she left the Philippines in 1962 and now lives in New York?need such recognizable signposts to navigate a work...
...ARTS Tokyo Pop: Takashi Murakami Books: The Tasaday story...
...ARTS Tokyo Pop: Takashi Murakami Books: The Tasaday story...
...ARTS Tokyo Pop: Takashi Murakami Books: The Tasaday story...