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We Are No Longer Babaylan
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9780898233971
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Contributor(s): Elsa Valmidiano (Author)
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: November 01, 2020
ISBN: 0898233976 EAN: 9780898233971
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"Every word of WE ARE NO LONGER BABAYLAN brilliantly hooks with and hinges on magic, and the magic of possibility. Valmidiano frames the ancient, persistent pain that hammers and chisels Filipina American knowledge with ritual and unrest. She articulates screams and silences, exalting that in order to engage with the Filipina, female, and storied being is to see her in all of her palimpsests. Her prose about the mysteries of waiting, family in manifold forms, and Pinay friendship, features a heartfelt, phenomenal voice declaring, time and time again, women's bodies--of writing, of work, of ceremony--theirs to narrate and protect."
--Janice Lobo Sapigao
--Janice Lobo Sapigao