The Mestiza beauty problematizing the beauty=power equation in the characterization of Carmen Villa in F. Fionil Jose's The Pretenders

Date of Publication

2013

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

Subject Categories

Fiction

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

Ma. Teresa H. Wright

Defense Panel Member

Shirley Lua
Antonette Talaue Arogo

Abstract/Summary

This thesis uses Gramsci's theory of hegemony to analyze the characterization of Carmen Villa in F. Sionil Jose's The Pretenders in order to recognize beauty as a construct of the manufactured Weltanschauung perpetuated by the ruling class in order to maintain their position of power.

The Pretenders depicts the class struggles and socio-political failings of the Philippine society. The analysis of it begins by recognizing the myth of Carmen Villa-which depicts the mutable nature of the social hierarchy and how the ruling class is able to use the superstructure for power maintenance and acquisition despite that mutability. It will continue on to show how and why the ruling class is able to manipulate the civil and political state apparatuses within the superstructure to create boundaries that limit not only subjugated groups but themselves as well.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU19824

Shelf Location

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

Physical Description

130, 3 unnumbered leaves ; 28 cm.

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