Seeking the father,seeking the roots:Reconstruction of the Filipino American historical-cultural space in What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco?
Filipino American writer Bienvenido N.Santos collects and collages the Filipino Americans'diasporatic experiences and memory fragments in What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco?,interpreting the trauma of cultural alienation and historical amnesia in David's spatial practice of"seeking the father"through roaming around San Francisco.The novel further represents the efforts of the Filipino community to reshape a historical-cultural space that embodies their collective/individual experiences and imagination through David and other Filipinos'searching for and decoding of the roots of ethnic culture.
What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco?spatial practiceThe Filipino Americansthe historical-cultural space
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