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BANC MSS 2007/160
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Collection Title: Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn papers
Date (inclusive): 1974-2006
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2007/160
Creators :
Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata
Extent:
Number of containers: 12 cartons and 1 oversize folder
Linear feet: 15
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn Papers, 1974-2006, consist of drafts of her works, public
relations materials, contracts and agreements, notes, and correspondence. The materials relate to her major or
minor works, or are directly relevant to Jessica Hagedorn's career as a novelist and a playwright.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice
may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the
Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has been assigned to The Bancroft Library. Materials in these collections are protected by the U.S.
Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and may not be used without permission of The Bancroft Library. Use may be
restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, privacy and publicity rights,
licensing terms, and trademarks. All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection
materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is
restricted to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn Papers, BANC MSS 2007/160, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library. Videotapes/sound
recordings have been transferred to the Microforms Collection of The Bancroft Library. Printed materials have
been transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public
access catalog.
Filipino American women authors
Novelists, Filipino
Dramatists, Filipino
Filipino Americans--Fiction
American literature--Filipino American authors
Filipino American authors
Manila (Philippines)--Fiction
Poems
Short stories
The Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn Papers were purchased by The Bancroft Library from Lame Duck Books on March 1,
2007.
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the container level.
Processed by Antonio Espinoza in 2007.
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born in Manila, Philippines in 1949 and immigrated to the United States at the
age of 14 to live in San Francisco with her family. Her mother's background is Scotch-Irish-French Filipino and
her father is considered Filipino-Spanish, although his great grandmother was Chinese.
Hagedorn studied at the American Conservatory Theater and published her first book of poems in 1972 at the age
of twenty. Hagedorn continued writing poetry including
Dangerous Music and
Danger and Beauty while she was the lead singer and songwriter for the performance
rock group, The West Coast Gangster Choir (later simplified to The Gangster Choir). She is also the editor of
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Fiction and
Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World. She wrote the screenplay for the
film
Fresh Kill, directed by Shu Lea Cheang. She was also closely involved with
the animated short series "Pink Palace" which explored issues that an adolescent Filipino girl might have to
deal with after emigrating to the United States.
Around 1978 Hagedorn moved to New York to build on her skills and experience as a novelist, playwright and
musician. In 1988 Hagedorn returned to the Philippines to finish her first novel,
Dogeaters, which after being published in 1990 received the American Book Award from the Before
Columbus Foundation. Hagedorn currently lives in New York with her husband and two daughters and continues to
write about her interest in issues surrounding the Filipino American's struggle to find a place between two
cultures.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn papers consist of drafts of her works, public relations materials, contracts and
agreements, notes, and correspondence. The materials relate to her major or minor works, or are directly
relevant to Jessica Hagedorn's career as a novelist and playwright.
The collection has been divided into six series:
Dogeaters,
Dream Jungle,
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Asian
American Fiction
and
Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World,
Other Works, Personalia, and Correspondence.