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Carlos Bulosan papers, 1914-1976

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Bulosan, Carlos
Title
Carlos Bulosan papers
Dates
1914-1976 (inclusive)
Quantity
4.99 cubic feet (7 boxes)
3 vertical files
19 microfilm reels
3 sound cassettes
3 sound tape reels
2 CD-ROM discs
Collection Number
0581
Summary
Papers of a Filipino-American author, poet, and migrant laborer
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
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Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Biographical Note

Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (c. 1911- September 11, 1956) was a Filipino American author, poet, and activist. A chronicler of the Filipino American experience in during the 1930s-early 1950s on the West Coast, he is best remembered for his semi-fictionalized autobiographical novel America Is In the Heart (1946). Though Bulosan was only 42-45 years old when he died of tuberculosis-complicated pneumonia in Seattle in 1956, he left behind a large body of poems, novels, short stories, plays, and correspondence on a wide range of interrelated topics. Bulosan’s work described the experience of growing up poor in a rural area of the Philippines, chronicling the conditions of neocolonialism after American occupation and centuries of Spanish colonialism. Bulosan’s work captures the “push” factors that drove himself his generation to the United States. Like Bulosan, they hoped to find a better future and forged resilient and adaptive communities in the face of an often-hostile and exploitative European American culture in the United States. Bulosan is remembered as a progressive anti-colonial, pro-labor, humanitarian voice by an array of communities including Asian/Pacific Islanders, organized labor, academics and intellectuals, and a wide array of social justice; ethnic; and activist communities.

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Content Description

Contains writings, annotated manuscripts, correspondence, taped recordings of reminscences and tributes by friends and associates, lists, publications, clippings, financial records, miscellany, ephemera, and scrapbook.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Literary rights have been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries; however, some restrictions may exist on copying, quotation or publication.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in 6 accessions:

  • Accession No. 0581-010, Carlos Bulosan poems and writing, 1914, undated
  • Accession No. 0581-011, Carlos Bulosan writings, 1936, undated
  • Accession No. 0581-012, Carlos Bulosan papers, 1936-1976 (bulk 1948-1956)
  • Accession No. 0581-013, Sound cassettes about Carlos Bulosan, 1959-1960
  • Accession No. 0581-014, Carlos Bulosan papers, 1953
  • Accession No. 0581-015, Ralph Franklin postcard, 1963

Separated Materials

Photographs related to Carlos Bulosan can be found in the Carlos Bulosan Photograph Collection, PH Collection 1156 ; it is likely that they were removed from the Carlos Bulosan Papers.

Related Materials

Records relating to Carlos Bulosan and the union of which he was a part, the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 


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