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Tag: Literature

5 classic must-read novels about love this February

February is the month of love. Here are 5 classic must-read novels that you can read this month, whether you … More

Anna Karenina, Arundhati Roy, Gapo, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Literature, Lualhati Bautista, Pride and Prejudice, The God of Small Things, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin

The Splendor of Portugal (and the Colonization of Angola)

António Lobo Antunes’ Splendor of Portugal is a splendid novel dealing with the ugliness of the Portuguese colonial enterprise in … More

Angola, Antonio Lobo Antunes, Colonialism, Literature, Portugal, Splendor of Portugal, Stream of Consciousness

Some Thoughts on the Death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I wrote this reflection for the Philippine Online Chronicles. I was reading the final pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of … More

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Latin American Literature, Literature, Of Love and Other Demons

Papa and Fidel: An Alternative Story of the Cuban Revolution

Papa and Fidel is about, in Karl Alexander’s own words, “what might have happened, what should have happened if Ernest … More

Castro, Cuban Revolution, Ernest Hemingway, Fidel Castro, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway, Karl Alexander, Literature, Papa and Fidel, US Imperialism

Airport Bookshops

Out of curiosity, while waiting to board my flight at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport the other day, I dropped by … More

Airports, Books, Cebu, Literature, Mactan, Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Philippine Literature, Travel

Beyond Our Comfort Zones: On Pagbutlak, Literature and Politics

Tol, pasok ako sa UP! Pano ba yan, iwan mo na kami? Malabo, wala naman akong pang-tuition. —TV commercial The … More

Aesthetics, Art, Busay, Campus Journalism, Literature, Pagbutlak, Philippine Literature, University of the Philippines, University of the Philippines Visayas, UP Visayas, UP Visayas Miagao, Writing

Women’s Resistance and the Antigonean Power of Mourning in Ariel Dorfman’s Widows

In acts of defiance evocative of Antigone in Sophocles’ classic tragedy, the women protagonists of the Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman’s … More

Antigone, Ariel Dorfman, Butler, Desaparecidos, Disappearances, Dorfman, Edward Said, Human Rights, Judith Butler, Latin American Literature, Literature, Mao Tse Tung, Sophocles, Widows

Pleasures of the Text*

We need history, but not the way a spoiled loafer in the garden of knowledge needs it. –Nietzsche, Of the … More

Barthes, Books, Busay, FARDEC, Iloilo, Literature, Melchor Cichon, Miagao, Michelle Serrano, Nathan Briones, Nietzsche, Pagbutlak, Panay, Philippine Literature, Poems, Roland Barthes, Short Stories, Text, University of the Philippines Visayas, UP Visayas, UPV, UPV College of Arts and Sciences

A Critical Response to Genevieve Asenjo’s Lumbay ng Dila

On a personal note, I bought a signed copy of Genevieve L. Asenjo’s Lumbay ng Dila on a discounted price from … More

Asenjo, CEGP, College Editors Guild of the Philippines, Filipino Literature, Genevieve Asenjo, Literature, Lumbay ng Dila, Philippine Literature

Taibo’s Four Hands

The beauty of it all was managing to weave it all together in a braid that would move through time … More

Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Four Hands, Fredric Jameson, Jameson, Latin American Literature, Leon Trotsky, Literature, Nicaragua, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Postmodernism, Sandinista, Taibo, US Imperialism

Blindness and Seeing

What if everybody goes blind all of a sudden? What would happen? Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago follows the … More

Bare Life, Blind, Blindness, Capitalism, Evil, Eyes, Human Nature, Jose Saramago, Literature, Portuguese Literature, Saramago, Vision

Inspector Montalbano and The Terra-Cotta Dog

Andrea Camilleri’s The Terra-Cotta Dog starts out like any other good detective novel. The Sicilian sleuth Salvo Montalbano staged the … More

Andrea Camilleri, Camilleri, Crime, Detective, Detective Novel, Italian, Italian Crime Fiction, Italian Literature, Literature, Mafia, Mystery, Salvo Montalbano, The Terra-Cotta Dog

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