Subversions of Desire
Author: Epifanio San Juan
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780824811297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This contextualizing of the imagination reveals two dimensions in the writer's discursive strategy: the ideological function of reconciling contradictions, and the utopian drive to subvert imperialist subjection via the invention of an egalitarian, resurgent Filipino community--the fulfillment of the dream of the 1896 Revolution. Joaquin's corpus is therefore as conflicted, as torn by the same contradictions as the body politic which his art seeks to mediate."--P. [4] of cover.