The rise of the improbable in Philippine contemporary literature: Anti-realist manifestations in six selected Philippine speculative fiction
Date of Publication
2012
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
Maria Teresa Ha Wright
Defense Panel Member
Johann Vladimir J. Espiritu
Shirley O. Lua
Vicente G. Groyon, III
Abstract/Summary
The growing body of Speculative Fiction in Philippine Contemporary Literature indicates a shift in a literary history deeply rooted in a Realist tradition. In this connection, this paper generally seeks to explore manifestations of an Anti-Realist mode in Philippine Literature through studying six Speculative Fiction texts from Philippine Speculative Fiction volumes one to six. One short story is taken from each volume.
This is done by drawing out the Anti-Realist narrative mode in the stories, according to Cristopher Nash's framework. The text selection is classified, and accordingly analyzed, under the two types of Anti-Realist fiction, Neocosmic and Anticosmic. Neocosmic texts create systematic worlds which accept disorderliness because they include improbable or uncustomary elements in their histories while Anticosmic texts, despite remaining in Realistic language, purposely destroy any form of systematicity through executing improbable or uncustomary language/form.
Both can be seen as part of the Anti-Realist mode of writing which consequently product Postmodern intentions of reading as they focus on viewing the text as a non-referential unit, free of binding references that produce singular views, or meaning. The texts to be studied are:
Neocosmic: (1) The Life and Death of Hermes Yu by Douglas L. Candano (Vol. 1, 2005) (2) The Child Abandoned by Yvette Tan (Vol 2, 2006) (3) The Music Child by Alfred Yuson (Vol. 3, 2007)
Anticosmic: (4) From ABCEDIYARIYA by Adam David (Vol. 4, 2009) (5) A Yellow Brickroad Valentine by Charles Tan (Vol. 5, 2010) (6) Alternative histories : really short stories for the Twitter generation vy Ian Rosales Casocot (Vol. 6, 2011)"
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU19834
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
131, 10 unnumbered leaves ; 28 cm.
Recommended Citation
Carag, B. (2012). The rise of the improbable in Philippine contemporary literature: Anti-realist manifestations in six selected Philippine speculative fiction. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2580
