Utopia Atbp: Versions of the Ideal in Philippine Fiction 6
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Contributor(s): Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia. 7:1 (2017). pp.2-24 5 6 [] |
Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; 46Edition: Description: Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Philippine Fiction in English;Philippine Fiction -- Utopia;Philippine Genre Fiction -- -- | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | LOC classification: | | 2Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ABSTRACT : In Utopia, Thomas More delivers a specific and context-bound critique of Tudor England through a faux anthropological report on a perfect society, perfect being defined as everything that tudor England was not. Philippine fiction can similarly be read as visions of what the nation could and should be, delivered in oblique flashes that object a fragmentary composite picture of everything that the Philippines is not, or no longer is. The supposedly opposed vectors of romance and realism coincide in their explicit and imlplicit yearnings for contenment and happiness, echoing more's own bemused, amused impatience with his flawed country. Through a telescoped survey of Philippine fiction in English, this article traces the contours of the Philippine utopian ideal. 56
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