{"pk":61450,"title":"What Emerges From a “Ruined World”: The Dueling Philippine Humanisms of Nick Joaquin","subtitle":null,"abstract":"For canonical Philippine writer Nick Joaquin, the American occupation has rendered insurrectionary action unfeasible. Thus, Joaquin is often read as lionizing the Spanish period in comparison. However, I challenge such readings to argue that Joaquin’s engagement with the Spanish past reflects a search for the conditions of possibility for revolution. This search, however, remains a fraught enterprise. Though Joaquin is lauded for depicting nonnormative, counter-hegemonic ideas of who qualifies to be a Philippine historical and revolutionary subject, I argue—by examining three of Joaquin’s works—that the tenability of his representations remains delimited by his positionality as a cosmopolitan mestizo.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Postcolonial theory"},{"word":"Feminist theory"},{"word":"Indigeneity"},{"word":"humanism"},{"word":"Philippine Literature"},{"word":"Non-Western Radical Traditions"},{"word":"Philippine Enlightenment"},{"word":"Spanish colonialism"},{"word":"American imperialism"},{"word":"Neocolonialism"},{"word":"the Gothic"},{"word":"Diasporic literature"}],"section":"Essays","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2055v2s0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Juan Carlos","middle_name":"Coden","last_name":"Fermin","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2020-11-26T00:20:58+01:00","date_accepted":"2020-11-26T00:20:58+01:00","date_published":"2021-07-19T09:29:12+02:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/alonfilipinxjournal/article/61450/galley/47414/download/"}]}