Immigration Blues (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Alegre, Edilberto N., and Doreen G. Fernandez, Writers and Their Milieu: An Oral History of First Generation Writers in English, De La Salle University Press, 1984.

  This book contains a wide-ranging interview with Santos in which he discusses his career and his creative methods.

• Campomanes, Oscar V., "Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile," in Reading the Literatures of Asian America, edited by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Amy Ling, Temple University Press, 1992, pp. 49 – 78.

  This scholarly article examines themes of exile, identity, and language in the literature of Filipino Americans. It includes a discussion of Santos's work, including his short stories.

• Casper, Leonard, New Writing from the Philippines: A Critique and Anthology, Syracuse University Press, 1966, pp. 127 – 33.

  Casper provides an appreciative discussion of Santos's short stories, mainly those that record the disillusioning post – World War II return to Manila of many Filipino Americans.

• Santos, Tomas N., "The Pinoy in Fact and Fiction," in Solidarity, Vol. 10, Nos. 5 – 6, 1976, pp. 132 – 36.

  Tomas Santos (Bienvenido Santos's son) discusses Bienvenido Santos's short stories as a continuation of the work of Carlos Bulosan in chronicling the lives of Filipino Americans.