![]() Suddenly, he notices a man emerging through the tall grass and heading towards his father. Without neglecting the context and informed by Bulosan scholarship, the paper argues that Allos's brotherly feeling toward Macario and his brothers is the primary condition and drive for his social and ethical self-making and search for "America." The paper also argues that an ethical literary perspective will further highlight new themes and meanings in Bulosan's other multi-genre works. First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years. America Is in the Heart Summary Next Chapter 1 Carlos Bulosan is a young boy helping his father plow their small plot of land in a rural village outside of Binalonan, in the Philippine province of Pangasinan. This paper is a revaluation of Bulosan's classic novel from an ethical literary perspective by focusing on the relationship between the internal and external worlds of Allos/Carlos and his brothers, especially Macario. Even at the wake of the "American century," when globalization has taken the fa?ade of a US neocolonial capitalist ethos to the disenfranchisement people in the diaspora and the Global South, the novel continues to be socially relevant. When America Is in the Heart(AIH) appeared in 1946, the Philippines was about to receive formal independence from the United States after four harrowing years of Japanese barbarism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Abstract : Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart captures the struggle of Filipino peasants in the United States. ![]()
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