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Academic Studies on Cecilia Brainard Novels

March 4, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

 

I was hap­py to hear from two PhD can­di­dates. The first inter­viewed me about my nov­el, When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept. He wrote:
“My name is ________ and I’m a PhD can­di­date in Eng­lish at the Uni­ver­si­ty of ______. I’m from Japan and work­ing on my dis­ser­ta­tion that dis­cuss­es eth­nic Amer­i­can writ­ers’ lit­er­ary writ­ings on the Sec­ond World War in the Pacif­ic. I read your nov­el, When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, and was impressed with your por­trait of the war and the his­to­ry of the Philip­pines in the novel. …
I would be tremen­dous­ly grate­ful if you could elab­o­rate on your remark in the above inter­view. Again, thank you for writ­ing the great WWII novel.”

 

I also heard recent­ly from anoth­er PhD can­di­date, Cheryl Grace Lau­ron Ongchua. She had done her MA dis­ser­ta­tion on my sec­ond nov­el, Magdalena.
It is grat­i­fy­ing to real­ize that aca­d­e­mics study my work. Thanks to them.

When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept is pub­lished by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan Press and the Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House in the Philippines.

Mag­dale­na is pub­lished by the Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House in the Philip­pines and also Plain View Press in the US>

Tags: World War II nov­els, WWII, fic­tion, Philip­pines, Pacif­ic War, his­tor­i­cal fiction

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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