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No. 33/34

(2019)

An open-access semi-annual peer-reviewed international electronic journal of literary, language, and cultural studies of the Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

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No. 33/34 (2019)

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Editor's Introduction

Vincez Serrano

1-4

Drawing Spaniards in the Philippines

Rocio Ortuño Casanova

5-35

The Concept of Filial Piety in East Asian Confucian Culture from the Perspectives of Gadamer and Habermas

Donghyun Kim

36-64

Identities in Exile: Re-membering Identities, Re-membering the Nation in Laksmi Pamuntjak’s Amba

Siti Nuraishah Ahmad

65-87

Intercultural Theater and the Local Context of Reception: Lady Macbeth 2016 and the South Korean Presidential Scandal

Seokhun Choi

88-110

Divided We Stand: Bewailing Alien-nation in Esiaba Irobi’s Why I Don’t Like Philip Larkin

Niyi Akingbe

111-135

Born of Two Koreas, of Human Blood: Monstrosity and the Discourse of Humanity and Pacifism in the Film Bulgasari

Jungman Park

136-155

Towards a Practical and Empirically Grounded Account of Útang-na-loób as a Filipino Virtue

Jacklyn A. Cleofas

156-179

“The Returning Echoes of Our Memory”: Networks of Memory and Postcolonial Trauma in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain

Vandana Saxena

180-197

Mothering Celebrities: Feminine/Feminist Agency and Subjectivity in the Auto/biographies of an Indonesian Female Celebrity

Aquarini Priyatna, Lina Meilinawati Rahayu, Mega Subekti

198-225

The City as Nation: Nick Joaquin’s Manila, My Manila as Nationalist History

Hidde Van der Wall

226-246

The Politics of Translation in the Creation, Production, and Canon Formation of Translated Cebuano Literature from the Postwar Period to the Present

Maria Vanessa Estillore-Gabunada

247-273

Reinforcing Myths about Women in Philippine Culture: Semiotic Analyses of the Sexbomb Girls in Eat Bulaga’s Laban o Bawi

Trina Leah Mendoza

275-298

Interdisciplinarity in the Philippine Academia: Theory, History, and Challenges

Francis C. Sollano, Jose Mari B. Cuartero

299-310

The Bow and the Lyre: Towards a Healthy Tension between Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity

Remmon E. Barbaza

311-317

The Context and Challenges of Interdisciplinarity in the Philippines

Maria Assunta C. Cuyegkeng

318-337

Interdisciplinarity from Below

Michael D. Pante

338-357

Ilang Eksplorasyon sa Pag-Aaral ng Kulturang Popular sa Filipinas

Louie Jon A. Sánchez

358-376

The Shifting Frontiers of Literary Studies in the Twenty-first Century

Shanthini Pillai, Melissa Shamini Perry

377-387

Graphic Novels: Understanding How Fifth Graders Read Literary Texts through Eye Movements Analysis

Suriani Mohd Yusof, Zalina Mohd Lazim, Khazriyati Salehuddin, Mizhanim Mohamad Shahimin

388-427

Literature for the Twenty-first Century: Developing Multimodality and Entrepreneurial Skills through Literature-Based Assessments

Melissa Shamini Perry

428-454

Pursuing Imperfection, Forgiveness, and Repentance in Popular Twenty-first Century Malay Television Fiction

Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Raihanah M. M., Ruzy Suliza Hashim

455-475

Accented Spatial Representations in the Internal Exilic Eelam-Tamil Film Viduthalai Moochu

Ramesh Loganathan, Shanthini Pillai, Pramela Krish

476-502

Dramatizing History: Reading Bakhtin’s Carnival in Kee Thuan Chye’s Plays

Erda Wati Bakar, Noraini Md Yusof, Ravichandran Vengadasamy

503-523

Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels

Anita Harris Satkunananthan

524-538

Transformation of the Self through Islamic Practices in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator

Amrah Abdul Majid

539-556

Introduction to the Forum Kritika on Food Transformations

Simon C. Estok

547-564

The Problematic Representations of the Orient, Women, and Food Transformations in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

Jungyoun Kim

565-583

Food Transformation Technology in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl and What It Means for Us

Young-hyun Lee

584-599

GM Foods, Power, and Globalization in Oryx and Crake

Chao Xie

600-616

Packing Death in Australian Literature

Iris Ralph

618-640

Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems

Sophie Christman

641-666

Timon of Athens, Food Transformations, and the World as Confectionary

Simon C. Estok

667-683

Film Review: An Analysis of Food Narrative in the Indian Film Lunchbox

Peina Zhuang

684-694

Historical Dialogue: Conceptualizing and Mapping a Field

Ariella Lang

695-700

In Memoriam: Johnston Price

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701

Historical Dialogues, Collective Memory Work, and the (Dis)continuation of Conflicts

Sara Dybris McQuaid, Henrik Sonne Petersen, Johnston Price

702-728

Filling in the Gaps: Remembering the 1965 Killings in Indonesia

Kar-Yen Leong

729-760

The Coming Out of Memory: The Holocaust, Homosexuality, and Dealing with the Past

Arnaud Kurze

761-785

Mapping Historical Dialogue: Remembering for the Future

Alison Atkinson-Philips, Ulrike Capdepón, Jill Strauss, Oriol López-Badell

786-805

Why Mourning Matters: The Politics of Grief in Southeast Asian Narratives of Women’s Migration

Carlos M. Piocos III

806-858

Rethinking Filipino Masculinities: The Case of the Cosmopolitan Tambay

Joseph T. Salazar

859-882

from I Look at My Body and See the Source of My Shame: Site Specific

Mark Anthony Cayanan

883-889

The Tongues of Men and of Angels

Sandra Nicole Roldan

890-904

Gathered Upon the Landscape

Oscar Tantoco Serquiña Jr.

905-913

On Faith, Politics, Privilege, and Other Demons: An Interview with the Novelist Christos Tsiolkas

Daryll Delgado

914-929

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Department of English
School of Humanities
Ateneo de Manila University

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International Board of Editors

Jan Baetens
Professor
Faculty of Arts
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (Belgium)

Joel David
Professor of Cultural Studies
Inha University (South Korea)

Michael Denning
Professor of American Studies and English
Department of English
Yale University (US)

Faruk
Faculty of Cultural Sciences
Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)

Regenia Gagnier
Professor of English
University of Exeter (UK)

Leela Gandhi
John Hawkes Professor of the Humanities and English
Brown University (US)

Inderpal Grewal
Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor of South Asian Studies, Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies
Yale University (US)

Peter Horn
Professor Emeritus and Honorary Lifetime Fellow
University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Honorary Professor and Research Associate in German Studies
University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)

Anette Horn
Professor of German Studies
University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)

David Lloyd
Distinguished Professor of English
University of California, Riverside (US)

Bienvenido Lumbera
National Artist for Literature
Professor Emeritus
University of the Philippines

Rajeev S. Patke
Director of the Division of Humanities
Professor of Humanities
Yale NUS College (Singapore)

Vicente L. Rafael
Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor of History
University of Washington (US)

Vaidehi Ramanathan
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Davis (US)

Temario Rivera
Professorial Lecturer
Department of Political Science
University of the Philippines

E. San Juan, Jr.
Philippines Studies Center (US)

Neferti X.M. Tadiar
Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Barnard College (US)
Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University (US)

Antony Tatlow
Honorary Professor of Drama
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

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