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Article: When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels
Title | When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels |
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Keywords | Nick Joaquin Philippine novel in English Postcolonial Gothic Queer theory |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. The Journal's web site is located at https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk |
Citation | Kritika Kultura, 2018, v. 30-31, p. 438-454 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This essay reads Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels using the critical templates gleaned from gothic studies and queer theory. The essay explores the idea of doubling and monstrosity and demonstrates how these two gothic tropes are deployed to activate the queer potential found in the character of Connie Escobar. The essay builds on an existing interpretation of the novel—that the narrative is an account of regeneration—and extends this by arguing that this narrative of transformation is mobilized precisely by a rejection of heteropatriarchal narratives encoded in the novel’s postcolonial world, mobilized in a particular way by the creation and undoing of an imagined bodily monstrosity performed and sustained through a gendered worlding |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/262077 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.2 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lizada, MAN | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-28T04:52:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-28T04:52:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Kritika Kultura, 2018, v. 30-31, p. 438-454 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2094-6937 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/262077 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This essay reads Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels using the critical templates gleaned from gothic studies and queer theory. The essay explores the idea of doubling and monstrosity and demonstrates how these two gothic tropes are deployed to activate the queer potential found in the character of Connie Escobar. The essay builds on an existing interpretation of the novel—that the narrative is an account of regeneration—and extends this by arguing that this narrative of transformation is mobilized precisely by a rejection of heteropatriarchal narratives encoded in the novel’s postcolonial world, mobilized in a particular way by the creation and undoing of an imagined bodily monstrosity performed and sustained through a gendered worlding | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. The Journal's web site is located at https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Kritika Kultura | - |
dc.subject | Nick Joaquin | - |
dc.subject | Philippine novel in English | - |
dc.subject | Postcolonial Gothic | - |
dc.subject | Queer theory | - |
dc.title | When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.13185/2826 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 292732 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 30-31 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 438 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 454 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Philippines | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1656-152X | - |