... “remittance fiction,” a work produced abroad (as program fiction) and valorized at home (as national literature). 14 Laya’s literary remittance was praised by the board of judges for “carr[ying] further still the progress that Filipino writers have achieved” (Arguilla, Nedruda, and Agoncillo 1940 , 122...

..., internal arena of an existential psyche. These shifts in literary tastes, the essay argues, augmented the weakening intellectual purchase of an interventionist New Deal reform agenda during the 1950s. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 New Deal welfare state detective fiction psychoanalysis...