Neguri, Spain: Twentieth-century Filipino writers and painters, depending on their individual psyche and experience, have remained relevant to this day. Carlos Bulosan, who died in 1956 in extreme poverty in the United States, warns about the alienation and the loneliness that come with migration, which especially rings true to Filipinos in diaspora today. Manuel Arguilla, a peasant’s son with the peasant’s gift of wide-eyed innocence and wonder, writes about the simple but happy life of small and simple farmers. To Arguilla, the city tends to dull the eyes and to overwhelm any newcomer with its lack of familiarity. All of a sudden, both brotherhood and neighborliness which rural life fosters and treasures as a virtue dissolve into a blur in the haze of the asphalt jungle. Men are measured according to their wealth and stature rather than their character. <<READ MORE>>
Silver Linings 