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Leny Strobel's A Book of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babaylan is a mosaic of poems, reflections, found texts, essays, and images that attempts to answer the question: what do you do after you decolonize? Leny Strobel continues her research and insight on the process of decolonization, which she first wrote about in Coming Full Circle. In this book, she maps her journey and writes of her unfolding realization that her life need not be overdetermined by dualisms and ideologies; that it is possible to live a joy-filled and peaceful life while always acting with others in the daily constant struggle to be human. She acknowledges, with a great depth of gratitude, the revolutionary spirit and wisdom of the Filipina Babaylan whose legacy continues to inspire today. That spirit fills these pages.
ISBN: 1-887764-64-X
Copyright 2005 Leny Mendoza Strobel

About the Author Leny Mendoza Strobel is Assistant Professor in the American Multicultural Studies Department at Sonoma State University in California. Email: strobel@sonoma.edu or lenystrobel@sbcglobal.net

Book images and illustrations
courtesy of: Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, ISIS International Manila art by artists Sandra Torrijos, Maica Delfino and Lillette de Lara, Cal Strobel, Tiboli Publishing, Melissa Nolledo-Christoffels, and Celia at <http://desarapen.blogspot.com>.

Cover and art production by Perla Paredes Daly, NewFilipina, Inc.

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Retail: $18.95

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Book Launch: June 3, 2005. Sponsored by FAWN2005 and Philippine Expressions Bookshop, New York City.
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Praise for A Book of Her Own

Leny Strobel’s latest work is a perfect follow up to her first book, Coming Full Circle; together, they are a potent resource for students and scholars wishing to delve into the psyche of Filipinos. Lyrically written and intellectually disciplined, it offers a collection of inspired meditations and insightful analyses of the Filipino-American mind-set.  
----Danilo Begonia, Professor of Asian American Studies, San Francsico State University

Leny Strobel asks: What does one do after decolonization? In this book she tells her own journey towards finding her own answers. It is not a prescription but a map that will resonate with many readers. This is an invaluable tool for high school and college educators to use as an entrance to their students’ queries about identity in a multicultural and multiperspective world.
----Oscar Penaranda, educator and author of Seasons by the Bay and Full Deck

Anyone wishing for a way (back) to one’s loob or inner self will find remarkable inspiration from A Book of Her Own. Written in delightful prose and poetry punctuated with heartwarming humor and poignant memories, Leny Strobel’s book of meditations speaks of her courageous journey into--and out--of the depths of Filipino postcolonial trauma. This is a must read for all wishing to learn to laugh again and find deep joy in the aftermath of colonial wounding. 
----Lily Mendoza, Assistant Professor, University of Denver, Colorado

This collection of essays, poems, narratives, quotations and images will excite and give joy to readers as well as writers. It might frustrate the reader who needs to catalogue and find a category for it. A Book of Her Own goes beyond traditional, simple categories. It brings important parts of the author’s life-physical, intellectual and spiritual-with laughter, tears, quiet meditations, explicit discussions and debates with such skill and courage with words and ideas that it will haunt readers for many years to come. And it will hopefully move many of us to actively confront both the beauties and the sorrows of the many worlds presented to us by Leny Mendoza Strobel.
----Roshni Rustomji-Kerns, author of The Braided Tongue and Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas.

There’s a saying: We’re all born poets and it’s the living that can leach the poetry away. The world of academia certainly can be debilitating to the world/work of the heart. With this collection, Leny M. Strobel shows herself to be among the few who recovers the poetry that was originally hers -- and she does so without sacrificing scholarship.
----Eileen Tabios, poet and author of I Take Thee English, For My Beloved

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