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Kerry Poethig didn’t ask to come, but her Presbyterian parents did—so she grew up in Manila: teeming, cheerful, and grimy, loving it with an alab ng puso, an impassioned heart.
Manila Days is a hybrid memoir of a missionary child coming of age at the edge of American empire. The daughter of labor-focused “fraternal workers” with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Poethig weaves a Taglish narrative of family, faith, and politics from 1957 to 1972.
Poetic, wounded, and often funny, she recounts a childhood shaped by longing and improvisation—where Jesus whispers, “If it’s not magic, don’t believe,” and tree spirits, dreams, and Scripture coexist. Drawing on fragments from a family “Decade Box,” she reconstructs a world where identity is performed and belonging is never secure.
As anti-imperialist tensions rise, the question of “we” becomes urgent: allies, enemies, or both? Manila Days traces the limits of solidarity and the cost of innocence, asking what it means to speak “we” ethically within the unequal realities of a postcolonial world.
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Kerry Poethig is Professor Emerita of Global Studies at California State University Monterey Bay. Raised in Manila as the child of Presbyterian missionaries, her work explores faith, empire, and citizenship. A scholar-practitioner, she has written on Cambodia and feminist interreligious peacebuilding in the Philippines, and most recently on overlapping spiritual worlds through the Council for World Mission's DARE program. She served on the leadership team of the People's Forum on Peace for Life.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Kerry Poethig didn't ask to come, but her Presbyterian parents did--so she grew up in Manila: teeming, cheerful, and grimy, loving it with an alab ng puso, an impassioned heart.Manila Days is a hybrid memoir of a missionary child coming of age at the edge of American empire. The daughter of labor-focused 'fraternal workers' with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Poethig weaves a Taglish narrative of family, faith, and politics from 1957 to 1972.Poetic, wounded, and often funny, she recounts a childhood shaped by longing and improvisation--where Jesus whispers, 'If it's not magic, don't believe,' and tree spirits, dreams, and Scripture coexist. Drawing on fragments from a family 'Decade Box,' she reconstructs a world where identity is performed and belonging is never secure.As anti-imperialist tensions rise, the question of 'we' becomes urgent: allies, enemies, or both Manila Days traces the limits of solidarity and the cost of innocence, asking what it means to speak 'we' ethically within the unequal realities of a postcolonial world. Seller Inventory # 9798385273782
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