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Upon our own ground : Filipino short stories in English, 1956 to 1972 / edited by Gémino H. Abad. Diliman, Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2008.

This title, a two-volume anthology of Filipino short stories published between 1956 and 1972, is a continuation of the late professor Leopoldo Y. Yabes’s three-volume set of Filipino stories from the period 1925 to 1955. In the words of the editor, the stories selected here “represent Filipinas, that is, our sense of our own historical reality: our land and our people, and the way we think and feel, and so, live.”