The image as OFW : revolution and catachresis in Jose Maria Sison's "The guerilla is like a poet" and Ninotchka Rosca's State of war
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: English Language and Literatures, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Undaloc, John
issued: 2024-07-30T20:46:15Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: How is the post-1986 figure of the heroic overseas Filipino worker (OFW) sedimented by literary representations of revolution and sacrifice? This thesis argues that the valorized image of OFWs as the nation’s bagong bayani, “modern heroes,” emerges by way of a catachresis: a “misnaming” or “the misapplication of a word” that situates the OFW in a longer lineage of misnamings in the twentieth-century Philippine discourse on revolution. It proposes reading for catachreses as a method of critiquing the political act of claiming revolution, which engenders subjects that exceed, persist in, and “fall away” from discourse. This thesis supports its arguments by critiquing two social realist texts: Jose Maria Sison’s 1968 poem, “The Guerilla Is Like a Poet,” for its formalizing the bifurcation of the revolutionary subject amid the rise of postindependence Philippine nationalism in the second half of the twentieth century; and Ninotchka Rosca’s 1988 novel State of War for its formal innovations in representing “Festival” and revolution amid life in the Philippines.
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note: THE IMAGE AS OFW: REVOLUTION AND CATACHRESIS IN JOSE MARIA SISON’S “THE GUERILLA IS LIKE A POET” AND NINOTCHKA ROSCA’S STATE OF WAR by John Undaloc B.A. Hons., The University of Alberta, 2022 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (English) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) July 2024 © John Undaloc, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: The Image as OFW: Revolution and Catachresis in Jose Maria Sison’s “The Guerilla Is Like a Poet” and Ninotchka Rosca’s State of War submitted by John Undaloc in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Examining Committee: Dina Al-Kassim, Associate Professor, English Language and Literatures, UBC Supervisor Kimberly Bain, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literatures, UBC Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract How is the post-1986 figure of the heroic overseas Filipino worker (OFW) sedimented by literary representations of revolution and sacrifice? This thesis argues that the valorized image of OFWs as the nation’s bagong bayani, “modern heroes,” emerges by way of a catachresis: a “misnaming” or “the misapplication of a word” that situates the OFW in a longer lineage of misnamings in the twentieth-century Philippine discourse on revolution. It proposes reading for catachreses as a method of critiquing the political act of claiming revolution, which engenders subjects that exceed, persist in, and “fall away” from discourse. This thesis supports its arguments by critiquing two social realist texts: Jose Maria Sison’s 1968 poem, “The Guerilla Is Like a Poet,” for its formalizing the bifurcation of the revolutionary subject amid the rise of postindependence Philippine nationalism in the second half of the twentieth century; and Ninotchka Ro…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0444859
language: eng
degree discipline: English
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publisher: University of British Columbia
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scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Al-Kassim, Dina, 1966-
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88815