Legends of the Marias as alter/native texts: A post-colonial ideological inquiry

Date of Publication

2004

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

Subject Categories

Comparative Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

Ma. Teresa Wright

Defense Panel Chair

Paz Verdades Santos

Defense Panel Member

David Jonathan Bayot
Grace S. Alfon

Abstract/Summary

Legends of the Marias as Alter/Native Texts: A Post-colonial, Ideological Inquiry is a look into the role of Maria legends as ideological state apparatuses that could have been used by the colonizers to interpellate the natives, especially the women, into the colonial realm. By analyzing the role of the women protagonists of the legends, the existence and/or absence of local elements in the story, and the setting and storyline of these legends, the study was able to locate the presence of local resistance to the colonial ideology embedded in the texts. This resistance provides an alternative subjectivity which interpellates the reader into a reality other than the ones that constructed by the colonizers. The Maria legends, thus, function in two ways - as tools for colonization and domination or as instruments for change and subversion.

Abstract Format

html

Note

Title from cover.

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU13754

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

[5], 76 leaves ; 28 cm.

Keywords

Philippine literature; Folk literature; Philippine; Folklore--Philippines

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