A post-colonial reading of three novels by Ty-Casper, Rosca and Hagedorn.

Date of Publication

1994

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Arts in Language and Literature Major in Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

Cruz, Dr. Isagani

Defense Panel Member

Bautista, Dr. Cirilo
Erestain, Dr. Teresita
Gruenberg, Dr. Estrellita
Hafner, Dr. John
Medina, Dr. Buenaventura, Jr.

Abstract/Summary

The dissertation addresses the problem of how contemporary Philippine American novels are representative of post-colonial literature. The novels are described as having emerged out of the experience of colonization and readings of the texts point out the themes which foreground the tension between the past masters and the once-colonized Filipinos. Other post-colonial themes identified involve the journeys which lead to self-discovery and the recognition of the necessity to abrogate the neo-colonial authority or even to appropriate the centrist position in rejecting the marginalized, dislocated role imposed by the colonizer. Symptomatic readings of the novels identify the authors' strategies in the use of language as a post-colonial tool in writing back to the center. Interlanguage, syntactic fusion, code switching, glossing, variable orthography, magic realism, illusion and parody result in reconstituting, creatively reconstructing and forging a fully appropriated post-colonial language.

Abstract Format

html

Format

Print

Accession Number

TG02284

Shelf Location

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

Physical Description

171 numb. Leaves

Keywords

Novels, Philippine.; Women authors.; Asian Americans in literature.; Rosca, Ninotchka. State of war.; Casper, Linda Ty. Small Party in a garden.; Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters.

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