Bakwit: The Power of the Displaced by Jose Jowel Canuday PHILIPPINE LITERATURE - Cultural Communities

Bakwit: The Power of the Displaced by Jose Jowel Canuday PHILIPPINE LITERATURE - Cultural CommunitiesBakwit reflects the voices of millions of victims of armed conflicts in Southeast Asia, across Burma to the Mekong delta, and from Aceh to Papua. The book depicts suffering and inner strength of people who are not only displaced but also dispossessed in their own land. Yet, repeated official and academic explanations that refugees are helpless people are in fact a post colonial development myth as the book vividly illustrates. Bakwit narrates the

and to protest all are contained in this rich and engrossing collection of voices from Asia

as many other Filipinos had done before

Often grounded in the natural world

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Dimensions: 5

and co-founders of the FAHSC Museum

Complementing these extraordinary cloths are 16 vintage photo prints from the Leo Haks collection

ISBN-10: 091004381-7

Edited by Maria Luisa Camagay

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The book is passionate without a trace of sentimentality