The women of La India or Island of the Disappeared in the house of the mothers

Date of Publication

2015

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

Subject Categories

Comparative Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Abstract/Summary

This is the study of a women characters in Rosario Cruz Lucero's third collection of short story titled La India or Island of the Disappeared (Quezon City: UP Press, 2012). The nine stories 1) Conundrums, 2) San Roque's Miracle, 3) The Razing of Guinhalaran, 4) The White Lady in the Forest, 5) The Courtship of Estrella, 6) Inventing of Datu Calantiao and His Code, 7) Papa's Field, 8) Living Will and 9) The Stain of Blackberries feature women characters who are Peling, Susana, Maya, Sina, Tala, Uhay Baha, Estrella, Lunay, Blanca, Zeny, Nurse Garcia, Choleng, Socorro, Zenaida and Dolores. They were clustered and analyzed based on the categories of female characters/archetypes identified by foremost scholars of women studies in the country, Lilia Quindoza Santiago (In the Name of the Mother (Quezon City: UP Press, 2002) and Soledad Reyes (The Romance Mode in Philippine Popular Literature and Other Essays (Quezon City: UP Press, 1991).

Framing the women characters of Rosario Cruz Lucero (b. 1949) in the categories produced by Santiago (b. 1949) and (b. 1946), the study concludes that most of the women characters do fall under the categories establised by Reyes and Quindoza but other characters have regressed and progressed from these types of women. Cruz Lucero complicates the different struggles and issues women face in life, revealing women characters that go beyond archetypal and steriotypical characterizations. She tells the stories of women that have been greatly affected by colonialism, fear and tragedy, which change them as people. To further develop this study, one can analyze the significant male characters in the text or read the collection through a Postcolonial or Postcolonial Feminist lens.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU20457

Shelf Location

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

Physical Description

leaves ; 28 cm.

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