TY  - THES
T1  - Navigating Negros the spatiality of history in selected works of Vicente Garcia Groyon
A1  - De Borja, Jean Aaron Doria
A2  - Groyon, Vicente Garcia
A2  - Villareal, Corazon D.
LA  - English
PP  - Quezon City
PB  - College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-99796217612749563
AB  - The spatial turn in critical discourse signaled the re-emergence of space from the dominion of historicism. This study attempts to dismantle this hierarchy by analyzing three historical literary texts using spatial framework, thus drawing a strong connection between space and history. The works analyzed in this study - Rosario Cruz-Lucero's Feast and Famine: stories of Negros and La India, or Island of the Disappeared and Vicente Garcia Groyon's The Sky Over Dimas - use space to lay bare the problems and limitations of history. In using the concepts of space, place, mapping, the study shows that spatiality is far from the lifeless, unproductive analytical tool which traditional criticism has deemed it to be. The analysis shows that history possesses a latent spatiality which is able to bring into sharp focus its exclusionary, oppressive, and subjugating tendencies. Space and place are means to resists colonization, to unearth the forgotten past, and to reframe the telling of history.
CN  - LG 993.5 2016 C6 D43
KW  - Space perception in literature.
KW  - Space in literature.
KW  - Historicism in literature.
ER  -