Date of Publication

8-2008

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Language and Literature Major in Literature

Subject Categories

South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

David Jonathan Y. Bayot

Defense Panel Chair

Ronald Baytan

Defense Panel Member

Gerardo Z. Torres
Paz Verdades Santos

Abstract/Summary

The study re-introduces N.V.M. Gonzalez as a postcolonial critic. His key ideas in postcolonial criticism can be conceptualized in the critical matrix, consisting of three categories: Agency, History, and Orality. N.V.M.’s postcolonial criticism is shaped by his theoretical influences, primarily romanticism and formalism. However, he extends the boundaries of these domains of thought and reveals their points of juncture in the formation of his critical paradigm. N.V.M.’s theoretical deliberations can be situated alongside the frameworks of local and foreign postcolonial critics. On the other hand, there are points of difference, precisely because of the distinctiveness of the Philippine context. N.V.M. provides alternative models of understanding the Philippine postcolonial situation as well as alternative tools of analysis in Philippine postcolonial studies. Hence, in the same way that postcolonial criticism, as theorized by local and foreign thinkers, can be utilized to elucidate N.V.M.’s framework, his key ideas provide fruitful openings to understanding the issues central to postcolonial criticism, particularly in the Philippine context.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Electronic

Accession Number

CDTG004569

Shelf Location

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

Physical Description

101 leaves

Keywords

N. V. M. Gonzalez, 1915-1999; Postcolonialism in literature

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