Jessica Hagedorn

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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn (* 1949 in Santa Mesa, Manila , Philippines ) is a Filipino-American poet and writer .

Life and work

Jessica Hagedorn grew up in her native Manila. Your mother painted; her maternal grandfather was a writer and cartoonist. During her school days, which she spent like many young Filipinos at a US-friendly Catholic college, she first came into contact with Hollywood films and classics of Western literature. At the same time, she was attracted to local films and radio series produced in the local language, Tagalog . Crossing the borders between cultures would later become the main feature of her artistic work.

In 1963 (according to other sources: 1960) Jessica Hagedorn moved with her family to San Francisco , where she developed keen interest in the local musical, social and literary life and eventually studied at the American Conservatory Theater . In the Kearny Street Writers' Workshop , she also found access to Asian-American historiography and literature. In 1973 she published the volume of poetry Four Young Women: Poems together with Alice Karle , Barbara Szerlip and Carol Tinker . After producing the play Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon (1977), the book of which she co-wrote, Hagedorn moved to New York City , where a year later she produced her first play - Mango Tango (1978).

After Jessica Hagedorn had already published prose repeatedly, her masterpiece, the novel Dogeaters , appeared in 1991 , the subject of which was the cultural identity of the Philippines under the Marcos regime.

Jessica Hagedorn lives in Greenwich Village , New York City with her husband and two daughters .

Awards and grants

Jessica Hagedorn won the American Book Award in 1981 for her collection of poems Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions . In 1985, 1986 and 1988 she was a Macdowell Colony Fellowship recipient . The Roman Dogeaters earned her the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation in 1990 .

Works and publications by Jessica Hagedorn (selection)

  • Chiquita Banana. Third World Women . (3rd World Communications) 1972 (stage play)
  • (with Alice Karle, Barbara Szerlip, Carol Tinker :) Four Young Women - Poems . McGraw-Hill, 1973 (anthology of poetry, ed. By Kenneth Rexroth)
  • (with others :) Mountain Moving Day . The Crossing Press, Trumansburg 1973
  • Time to Greez! Incantations From the Third World . Guild Pubs., 1975
  • Dangerous music . Momo's Press, 1975 (poems)
  • Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions . Momo's Press, 1975 (poems)
  • (with Ntozake Shange Thulani Davis :) Where The Mississippi Meets the Amazon . 1977 (play)
  • Mango Tango . In: Y'Bird Magazine 1.1, 1977 (poems)
  • Tenement lover . 1981 (play)
  • Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions . 1981 (poems and short prose)
  • Holy Food . 1988 (stage play)
  • Teenytown . 1990 (stage play)
  • Dogeaters . Theater Communications Group, 1991 (novel)
  • (as editor :) Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction . Penguin Books, 1993
  • Wasteland / Fresh Kill . 1994 (screenplay)
  • The gangster of love . Penguin, 1997 (novel)
  • Introduction to: Burning Heart: A Portrait of the Philippines . Rizzoli, 1999
  • Danger and Beauty . City Lights Publishers, 2002 (short prose and poems)
  • Dream Jungle . Penguin, 2004 (novel)

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personal data
SURNAME Hawthorn, Jessica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata; Tarahata Hawthorn, Jessica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino-American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Mesa , Manila , Philippines