Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba?: Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels
説明
This article revisits the debate in 2010 among Philippine Daily Inquirer columnists over the question of whether or not, in Jose 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. Keywords: Rizal • novels • interpretation • crowds and people • community
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- Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
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Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 65 (2), 137-199, 2017
Project MUSE
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詳細情報 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1360004237397990656
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- ISSN
- 22441638
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- 資料種別
- journal article
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- データソース種別
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- Crossref
- KAKEN
- OpenAIRE
