00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862196927 Buklod 20200905092819.0 g||| | || || ta 200905s2017 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00037796889 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-031 Hau, Caroline S. (Sy Hau) author. Did Padre Damaso rape Pia Alba? reticence, revelation, and revolution in Jose Rizal's novels Caroline S. Hau. 2017. pages [137]-199 illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-199). This article revisits the debate in 2010 among 'Philippine Daily Inquirer' columnists over the question of whether or not, in Jos Rizal's novel 'Noli me tangere', Padre Damaso "raped" Maria Clara's mother, Pia Alba, a debate inspired by the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill. The article examines how Rizal employs rhetorical strategies of reticence and revelation along with literary onomastics and allusions in his two novels to create meanings and associations that open his novels to multiple, even competing, interpretations. Such ambiguity reveals the artistic, intellectual, and political stakes of interpretation, which involves not only the struggle for understanding and struggle over meaning, but also the struggle to make, unmake, and remake community. Celdran, Carlos. Rizal, Jose P. Characters Padre Damaso. Reproductive Health Bill. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 65, No. 2 (June 2017), p. 137-199. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 Available for the University of the Philippines Baguio via Project Muse. (viewed 08 September 2020) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-031 Analytics