Category Archives: Writing
The Empty Center and the International Style – Part 1
The following was a talk given in 2003, in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the 9th Annual National Conference of the Asian Studies Development Program, an initiative of the East-West Center, Univesity of Hawai’i, Manoa. READ PART 2. The “empty center” refers … Continue reading
The “White Man’s Burden” in Toons
I had forgotten that Rudyard Kipling wrote his remarkably racist and smug poem to encourage Americans as they took over my homeland, the Philippines. The “burden” white men take up is the burden of civilizing the world. “Take up the … Continue reading
Notes on Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Many years later, as I write about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I remember that distant afternoon when I faced the man from whom I stole my first ideas about teaching writing. Perhaps Marquez would find it amusing that in writing about … Continue reading