Irony and hybridity as modes of postcolonial subversion and re-writing history in Eric Gamalinda's My Sad Republic

Date of Publication

2001

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Honor/Award

Awarded as best thesis, 2001

Abstract/Summary

Abstract. This thesis aims to apply a postmodern perspective of history to Eric Gamalinda's novel My Sad Republic. Using the theory of Jean-Francois Lyotard's figural, Gamalinda's novel will be shown to deconstruct the colonial discourse and specifically those tools used to justify it such as Christianity, industrialism, and the American Constitution. The concepts of irony and hybridity will be shown to subvert the colonial discourse by methods by manipulating language and the claims of history and blurring the boundaries which result in the binary oppositions of which the colonial discourse is founded. The postmodern concepts of the figural and history will be appropriated towards postcolonial objectives of decolonization. The novel, the Centennial Literary Prize winner was chosen as the focus of this thesis because it is seen to be a representative of the best example of the state of Philippine literature at present and of the direction that Philippine literature may take.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU10684

Shelf Location

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

Physical Description

62 numb. leaves

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