Demythologizing Dean Alfar's Salamanca

Date of Publication

2008

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

Shirley O. Lua

Defense Panel Member

David Jonathan Bayot
Ma. Teresa H. Wright
Anne Frances N. Sangil

Abstract/Summary

This study will involve deconstructing certain myths that have been naturalized in Dean Alfar's Salamanca with the help of Roland Barthes' theory of Mythologies. This study will focus on a number of myths, the first being Jacinta's unearthy beauty, which this study deconstructs to be an allegory to the Filipino nation and a construct brought about by the Filipino people. The second will then focus on the writer Gaudencio and his vampire like appetites for inspiration, which the text makes the reader assume that he changes for good towards the conclusion but this is deconstructed to be a myth. The third will focus on faith and how its practice is too artificial and becomes more of a performance, rather than a real spiritual practice. The fourth will then focus on the Myth of the Nation, which expounds on the possibility that the Philippines is in a state of Limbo, a purgatory of which that American Colonizer Mrs. Brown, seems to be in complete control of. This section also investigates the ambigous nature of the novel's magical signs to be contrived and too inserted. It will also investigate the naturalized image of a nation of justice, and how all of these myths contribute to the assumed happy ending of the novel.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU14600

Shelf Location

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

Physical Description

ii, 79 leaves ; 29 cm.

Keywords

Demythologization; Mythology; Philippine; Signs and symbols--Philippines--Mythology

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