Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, regions, and languages. While the essays in this collection do not come to a consensus regarding the Gothic, they all refract the meaning of the term to expand its utility so that it may properly speak to the Philippines’ longue durée of multiple colonialisms and various regional cultures that crowd under the umbrella of the nation. The various permutations of the gothic within the various regional cultures, languages, colonial histories, and uneven experiences of globalization is what the editor of this volume refers to as “archipelagothic.” The collection includes essays on the gothic in Philippine literature in English, Tagalog literature, regional literature, cinema, TV, and comics and graphic novels.
1. Introduction: Archipelagothic, or the (Global)Gothic in Philippine Culture, Jeremy De Chavez; 2. Memories of Ghosts: Exploring the Gothic in Philippine Literature in English, Thomas Leonard Shaw; 3. Lineation, Seriality, and Suspension as Modes of Deployment of Darkness in Tagalog Literature, Edgar Calabia Samar; 4. Visayan Hacienda Stories as Gothic Fiction, Genevieve L. Asenjo; 5. The Gothic Affliction in Philippine Cinema, Shirley O. Lua; 6. Televisual Gothic in the Philippines, Louie Jon A. Sanchez; 7. Philippine Komiks and the Gothic: Haunting the Page, Marie Rose B. Arong; References; Glossary of Terms.
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