Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation 1946-1980
The book examines the connection between Philippine literature and nationalist discourse during the postwar period. Through close readings of the...
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The book examines the connection between Philippine literature and nationalist discourse during the postwar period. Through close readings of the works of a number of writers, it argues that the long-standing affinity between Philippine literature and nationalism is based, in part, on the power of literature to formulate and work through a set of questions central to nationalist debates on the possibility and necessity of social change. It asks: What is the relationship between knowledge and action? Between the personal and political? Between the foreign and Filipino? Between culture and history, culture and politics, culture and economics?
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- Publication:2001
- Publisher:Ateneo de Manila University Press
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- ISBN10:9715503675
- ISBN13:9789715503679
- kindle Asin:9715503675
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