Today he celebrated as an early postcolonial chronicler of the Filipino experience in America.Ĭarlos Bulosan wrote during an era of complicated relations between America and the Philippines. Bulosan died from tuberculosis at the age of 42, and many of his other works were published posthumously. His most famous work is the semi-autobiographical novel America is in the Heart (1946). In his short life, he wrote poems, short stories, journalistic pieces, and novels. He also taught himself English and pursued his lifelong passion for writing. Like most Filipino people in America at the time, Bulosan experienced severe racial discrimination, but he found community with other Filipinos and joined the labor movement that fought to unionize ethnic workers on the Pacific Coast. With only three years of formal schooling, Bulosan was broke and spoke no English, so he spent years working low-paying itinerant labor jobs in fields, orchards, hotels, restaurants, and factories. He arrived in Seattle on Jat the age of 17. Bulosan eventually saved enough money to secure steerage passage to America.
Their poverty notwithstanding, Bulosan’s family emphasized the importance of education. Following centuries of Spanish colonialism, the Bulosans struggled to survive, as large-scale plantations consolidated their hold over peasant lands. His parents were members of the Ilocano ethnolinguistic group. Carlos Bulosan was born in a rural farming village in the Philippine province of Pangasinan.
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