Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her bestselling novel about the Philippines during the reign of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos into an equally powerful theatrical piece that is a multi-layered tour de force.
As Harold Bloom writes, Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between cultures .
she takes aim at racism in the U.
and develops in her dramas the themes of displacement and the search for belonging.
Jessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, poet, novelist and playwright, born and raised in the Philippines.
Her novels include Dogeaters (Penguin 1990) which was nominated for a National Book Award and The Gangster of Love (Penguin 1996); a short story collection, Danger and Beauty (City Lights 2002).
Theatre Communications Group Dogeaters: a play about the philippines, paperback/jessica hagedorn
