It gives me (Cecilia Brainard) great pleasure to share the article I wrote for Positively Filipino about the novelist Linda Ty-Casper. Positively Filipino featured it right on time for Women's Month. The title is: Was Linda Ty-Casper Really a "Saling Pusa?" Please read the article in Positively Filipino - click below.
Positively Filipino writes:
"When award-winning Filipina author Linda Ty-Casper was coming of age in the post–World War II Philippines, the literary spotlight was mostly reserved for men. Women like her? Expected to stay in the background—supportive, quiet, focused on pamilya first and career second. That was the script.
But Linda didn’t follow scripts.
After marrying American literary critic Leonard Casper, she moved to the U.S., raised two daughters, ran a household, earned a law degree, stayed active in civic organizations—and somehow wrote 20 critically acclaimed books. Not safe books. Not “nice” books. Books that challenged cultural and political norms and refused to shrink themselves to make others comfortable. Two of her novels, in fact, were banned during the martial law years ...
Her recent book, A SMALL PARTY IN A GARDEN: REVISED AND CRITICAL EDITION, was launched at the Ateneo de Manila University Literary and Cultural Studies Program. The release of this Protest Martial Law novella is timely as the Philippines celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the People Power Revolution that got rid of the oppressive Ferdinand Marcos Dictatorship.
You can find this easily on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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