Papers by Rosario Torres-Yu
Philippinische Kinder leben in einer zunehmend komplexen Welt, die durch tiefgreifende soziokultu... more Philippinische Kinder leben in einer zunehmend komplexen Welt, die durch tiefgreifende soziokulturelle und wirtschaftliche Veränderungen auf nationaler und globaler Ebene geprägt ist. Kinderliteratur in den Philippinen vollzieht diese Veränderungen nach und hinterfragt dabei die traditionellen Konzepte von Kindheit und Erziehung und die herkömmlichen Geschlechterrollen, die ihnen innewohnen. Auf diese Weise bereitet sie philippinische Kinder besser auf das vor, was sie heutzutage erwartet. Hier gibt es jedoch noch einiges zu tun.
Humanities Diliman, 2007
The narratives generated by my earlier study of 20 women writers from three generations were a ri... more The narratives generated by my earlier study of 20 women writers from three generations were a rich source of data and insights on many issues on gender and writing, such as motherhood and its representation in literature. It is their ideas on motherhood which led me to ask how some of them represent motherhood in their works and what these representations say about their positions on the dominant maternal ideology in Philippine culture. Another impetus came from Delia Aguilar's study on Filipino housewives and the politics of gender. This study reveals that ". .. in the private space of the family as the major mechanism for the reproduction of social relations, women are at once validated and oppressed, a process that is powerfully mediated by the maternal ideology of which women are the foremost proponents." This maternal ideology shapes Filipino women's idea of motherhood that sees devotion to children, self-sacrifice, and care giving as the essence of motherhood, allowing them to embrace oppression and subordination. In this context, the interrogation of maternal ideology in Philippine literature is important to the overall feminist movement. Women writers who have freed themselves from the mystifying notions of motherhood may have been inspired to represent women in their works differently.
Writer and critic Epifanio San Juan Jr. observed, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth o... more Writer and critic Epifanio San Juan Jr. observed, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Amado V. Hernandez, that except for the works of Agoncillo and Lumbera, no other historical analysis, particularly of the essays and plays, of the National Artist Hernandez has been written. This paper is an attempt to fill the gap. It evaluates the social and historical significance of one of his plays, Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol (1961), through the lens of Hernandez's view of the relations of literature and society and in the context of the ideological position of his play and the ideological struggle at the time the play was written. The play is treated, too, as discourse and centers on the discussion of power and "truth." It is this writer's position that it is in this play that Hernandez's continuing relevance to the present ideological debate rests. It is also in this play that the strength of his critique is clearly demonstrated.
Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities, 2012
This paper discusses its central argument that the nationalist and radical social critique of th... more This paper discusses its central argument that the nationalist and radical social critique of the national democratic social movement continues to be relevant in the Philippines. Hernandez’s and Lumbera’s discourse are positioned in this critique. In the present debate among intellectuals who espouse the postcolonial critique of ideology, and those who oppose it, the writings of Hernandez and Lumbera continue to be relevant to Philippine conditions in the ongoing struggle against imperialism in its present form. Keywords: Nasyunalismo, postkolonyal, Hernandez, Lumbera, kritisismo, kilusang makabayan
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Papers by Rosario Torres-Yu