The Poetics of elsewhere: Conchitina Cruz, held and lingered
Date of Publication
2009
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
David Jonathan Y. Bayot
Defense Panel Member
Ronald Baytan
Gerardo Z. Torres
Abstract/Summary
An undergraduate study on the poetics of Conchitina Cruz in her collection elsewhere held and lingered. Composed of a memoir that attempts to trace the poet's creative life and discussion of selected poems from the collection, this paper identities Cruz's poetics as the poetics of elsewhere, in its departure from the conventions of poetry writing and postcolonial dis-course, by foregrounding the poetic race in relation to Filipino-ness. Consequently, in her deliberate attempt to dis-place her writing, Cruz re-fines anglophone writing as perpetually elsewhere lingering despite its being held and owned, and as perpetually fed by the lingering voices tht surround its productions.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU19830
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
64, various foliations: ; illustrations : 28 cm.
Recommended Citation
Marfa, J. (2009). The Poetics of elsewhere: Conchitina Cruz, held and lingered. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2568
