CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD: PHILIPPINE AMERICAN, FILIPINO AMERICAN, WRITER, LITERATURE, NOVELIST, FICTION WRITER, ASIAN AMERICAN, CALIFORNIA CEBU

 

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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

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BIOGRAPHY

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Pictures of Cecilia & Lauren Brainard in Peru

Pictures in Thailand & Cambodia

Pictures in Northern India

FORTHCOMING EVENTS:

January 16, 2010, 2-5 p.m., Book Launch of Growing Up Filipino II, sponsored by PAWA, Bayanihan Community Center,
1010 Mission St., San Francisco, for more information, contact pawa@pawainc.com

January 25, 2010, 1-5 p.m., Cecilia lectures on Creative Writing (The Writers Presence) at the Cebu Normal University; those who wish to attend (who are nonstudents) call Dean Corazon Prejoles at 32-253-0347

March 31, 2010 - Cecilia teaches Essential Beginnings at the Writers Program of UCLA Extension, for more information call 310-825-9415

April 23, 2010 - Cecilia is a participant in Authors' Night of Philippine Expressions

April 24, 2010 - Cecilia will sign books at the LA Festival of Books (Philippine Expressions booth)

May 5, 2010 - Cecilia Brainard and Miguel Syjuco in ALOUD program of the Los Angeles Public Library

 

External Links and Other Sources about Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
University of Minnesota Site about Philippine history and culture
The History of Filipino Women's Writings by Riita Vartti
University of Michigan Press site on When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
Notable Filipinos Worldwide
1997 Index of Interviews of Selected American Authors
Poets and Writers Information re Hubler Interview of Brainard
California Authors Directory
Allen Gaborrow Reviews of Noli Me Tangere and When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
BiblioBuffet Interview of Cecilia Brainard by Daniel Jaffe
Interview of Cecilia Brainard by One on One Jeepney Books
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ceciliabrainard
Cecilia Brainard on Twitter- http://www.twitter.com/ceciliabrainard
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard on YouTube
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (Wikipedia)
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, by Eleanor Ty in Asian American Novelists
Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing - (Cecilia Brainard page 46)

Works Written about Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
* Beltran, Marie G. "Woman with Stories and Other Concerns. " Filipinas (May 1995): 29, 56.
* Casper, Leonard. "Song of Yvonne: Possibilities of Humanities in an Age of Slaughter. " Philippine Studies 41.2 (1993): 251-254.
* Cruz, Isagani R. "The Pleasures of Ubec, Otherwise Known as Cebu. " Starweek: The Sunday Magazine of the Philippine Star (Oct. 29, 1995): 20.
* Hidalgo, Cristina Pantoja. Filipino Woman Writing: Home and Exile in the Autobiographical Narratives of Ten Writers. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1994.
* Huebler, Dana. "An Interview with Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. " Poets and Writers Magazine (March/April 1997): 96-105.
* Grice, Helena. "Artistic Creativity, Form, and Fictional Experimentation in Filipina American Fiction. " MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 29.1 (2004): 181-198.
* Ty, Eleanor. "Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. " Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. 29-33.
* Ty, Eleanor. "'Never Again Be the Yvonne of Yesterday': Personal and Collective Loss in Cecilia Brainard's Song of Yvonne. " Writing Dispossession, Writing Desire: Asian-American Women Writers. Ed. Srimati Mukherjee. Forthcoming.

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