TY  - BOOK
TI  - Upon our own ground: Filipino short stories
SN  - 9789715425841 (v.1)
KW  - Short stories, Philippine
N2  -  lovers and children;  old and lonely people, social outcasts (the town idiot);  social gatherings and festivities (fiestas, processions, carnivals rallies);  supernatural beings (fairies, ogres, ghosts);  the Chinese);  the common tao-fishermen,  farmers, jeepney drivers, squatters, beggars, neighborhood toughies;  the cultural or ethnic  minority (Igorot, Mangyan, Tausug;  the middle class and the elite or upper class ( landowners, teachers, politicians);  war (the revolution  against Spain, the Filipino American War, the Japanese occupation) and death;  we shall endure. The two volumes are one whole: a kind of tapestry or kaleidoscope-various patterns and pictorial designs, so to speak, depicting rural and urban landscapes; This two-volume historical anthology of our short stories in English bears the title, Upon  Our Own Ground, as to say: This is how we Filipinos live, is the way we think and feel  about our reality, our world. We stand upon our own ground
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