How does Jessica Hagedorn imagines Filipina in her novel ? To answer the question , I will first trace how the Filipina is constructed by the colonization policies of the Spanish and Americans . This is to give the discussion of the novel which is set during the neo-colonial Martial Law a background history . First , the Filipina is formed historically by the colonial policies of the Spanish conquistadores . As Diaz argues in her essay Postcolonial Theory and Third Wave Agenda , the woman of...











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