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Si Judy Ann Santos At Ang Wika Ng Teleserye, Louie Jon A. Sánchez Dec 2024

Si Judy Ann Santos At Ang Wika Ng Teleserye, Louie Jon A. Sánchez

Kritika Kultura

The actress Judy Ann Santos boasts of an illustrious and sterling career in Philippine show business, and is widely considered the “queen” of the teleserye, the Filipino soap opera. In the manner of Barthes, this paper explores this queenship, so-called, by way of traversing through Santos’ acting history, which may be read as having founded the language, the grammar of the said televisual dramatic genre. The paper will focus, primarily, on her oeuvre of soap operas, and would consequently delve into her other interventions in film, illustrating not only how her career was shaped by the dramatic genre, pre- and …


Christianity As A Culture Of Mobility: A Case Study Of Asian Transient Migrants In Singapore, Catherine Gomes, Jonathan Y. Tan Dec 2024

Christianity As A Culture Of Mobility: A Case Study Of Asian Transient Migrants In Singapore, Catherine Gomes, Jonathan Y. Tan

Kritika Kultura

More than ever before, the global and transnational movements of young people for work and study have become part of everyday life. Yet there is very little research on this phenomenon in relation to how actors in transience create strategies to cope with being away from home nation (place of birth and/or citizenship) and from family. As part of the findings of a larger international study on the identities, social networks and media/ communication use of transient migrants, researchers found that Christianity featured prominently during life in transience for Asian respondents. This paper thus puts forward the notion that Christianity …


Guest Editor's Introduction, Joel David Dec 2024

Guest Editor's Introduction, Joel David

Kritika Kultura

Although vital to the existence of the Philippine movie industry, stardom has rarely garnered scholarly attention apart from the auteurist (film-artist) or biographical modes. Part of the reason is external, in the sense that media-studies approaches to star-text discourses emerged relatively recently, and may still be in the process of further refinement. However, a crucial internal reason is that the primary Philippine example, Nora Aunor, inadvertently affirms the earlier, now-conventional approach by virtue of her singular dominance as both top star and top multimedia performer. This study will track relevant trends in star studies vis-à-vis Philippine scholarly output, and will …


The Capacity To Be Content: Aspirations And Young Adult Catholics In Singapore, Jayeel Serrano Cornelio Dec 2024

The Capacity To Be Content: Aspirations And Young Adult Catholics In Singapore, Jayeel Serrano Cornelio

Kritika Kultura

Drawing from interviews with young adult Catholics in Singapore, this article discusses aspirations in terms of the capacity to be content. For my informants, the capacity to be content has three aspects: the pursuit of happiness, the questioning of Singapore’s incessant drive for economic growth, and the neglect of those left-behind. Taken collectively, these nuances show that the aspirations of young adult Catholics are effectively a moral critique of the social and economic state of affairs in the city-state. The capacity to be content also informs these young adults’ decision to be involved in welfare activities or even be employed …


“Not Here To Steal Sheep”: A Reading Of The History And Politics Of Catholicism In Thailand, Coeli Barry Dec 2024

“Not Here To Steal Sheep”: A Reading Of The History And Politics Of Catholicism In Thailand, Coeli Barry

Kritika Kultura

This article investigates how Catholicism has had to evolve and adapt in order to sustain itself in Thailand. As Siam/Thailand developed through economic, political and cultural interactions with Western powers, Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular served as a site on which Thai national identity was forged in response to these interactions. Christianity was an ‘other’ against which Thai Buddhist identity coalesced yet the appeal of first Catholic and later Protestant missionary education was very strong. This article combines interpretive historical method and analysis of contemporary shifts that reflect a more assertive Thai Catholic Church. In so doing, the …


Hàn Mặc Tử (1912-1940): A New Moon For The Season Of The New Evangelization In Vietnamese Catholicism, Hưng Trung Phạm Sj Dec 2024

Hàn Mặc Tử (1912-1940): A New Moon For The Season Of The New Evangelization In Vietnamese Catholicism, Hưng Trung Phạm Sj

Kritika Kultura

Since its arrival to Vietnam, Catholicism has often been known or accused as either heterodox religion or religion of superstition. Efforts to inculturate the Christian faith into Vietnamese cultures have begun from early missionaries in Vietnam in the early seventeenth century to church leadership in Vietnam today. At the early twentieth century, the poetry of Hàn Mặc Tử (1912 – 1940) has demonstrated a new level of inculturation where the Christian faith no longer remains at the level of “superficial adaptation” but has become a principle that animates, directs, and unifies Vietnamese cultures, transforming and remaking it so as to …


Kidlat Tahimik And The Determination Of A Native Filmmaker, Patrick F. Campos Dec 2024

Kidlat Tahimik And The Determination Of A Native Filmmaker, Patrick F. Campos

Kritika Kultura

Using field notes drawn from participative research in the context of his home life in Hapao, Ifugao and Baguio City, Benguet, as well as information gathered through interviews with his family, confidantes, and mentees, the article revaluates the oeuvre of pioneering independent filmmaker, Kidlat Tahimik. It is written self-reflexively, approximating the critic’s process of understanding Kidlat’s work through the lenses of a personal encounter. It critiques Kidlat’s cinema, with special focus on Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994), and reads it as his determination to author himself as “native” and “Third World” filmmaker, the same determination that …


Interactive Meaning Potentials In Weight-Loss Web-Advertising: The Female Body In Crisis, Emily Lau Kui Ling Dec 2024

Interactive Meaning Potentials In Weight-Loss Web-Advertising: The Female Body In Crisis, Emily Lau Kui Ling

Kritika Kultura

The common saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words” is no longer questioned in the twenty-first century where information is extensively rendered in visual terms. The rise of digital capture devices and online social media presumes that visual culture is head- ing towards greater influence in every aspect of life. This paper explores the ways visual representations attract the viewer’s attention, and based on Jewitt and Oyama’s analytical framework of visual social semiotics seeks to understand the meaning-making potentials of weight-loss advertising. Three key factors: distance, contact, and point of view are shown to be crucial in creating complex …


Dismantling Disaster, Death, And Survival In Ecopoetry, Rina Garcia Chua Dec 2024

Dismantling Disaster, Death, And Survival In Ecopoetry, Rina Garcia Chua

Kritika Kultura

The Philippines, a country situated close to the equator and in the Pacific Ring of Fire, has been constantly hit by natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, landslides, and more. With a good number of local poetry dealing with these natural disasters as themes, is it possible for ecopoetry to provide readers with clear ideas on how to survive these catastrophic events? The major objective of this study is to explore the role of literature in promoting survival through the exploration of death and disaster in poetry. To do this, the different versions of disaster in the poetry of Merlie …


Front Matter, Kritika Kultura Dec 2024

Front Matter, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Editor's Introduction, Kritika Kultura Dec 2024

Editor's Introduction, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


"From Leisure", Angelo V. Suarez Dec 2024

"From Leisure", Angelo V. Suarez

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


"The Pinoy Invasion", Jov Almero Dec 2024

"The Pinoy Invasion", Jov Almero

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


"Days Of Rain", Francezca Kwe Dec 2024

"Days Of Rain", Francezca Kwe

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


"The Makings Of Dynamite", Alyza Taguilaso Dec 2024

"The Makings Of Dynamite", Alyza Taguilaso

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Kasaysayan, Sining, Literatura: Ang Politika Ng Panitikan Sa Makabagong Panahon, E. San Juan Jr. Dec 2024

Kasaysayan, Sining, Literatura: Ang Politika Ng Panitikan Sa Makabagong Panahon, E. San Juan Jr.

Kritika Kultura

Sa realidad ng ating sitwasyong neokolonyal, isinasakatuparan ng araling panliteratura ang minanang tungkuling ginagampanan nito na gawing masunuring sabjek ang indibidwal na may kakayahang mangatwiran. Sinusugpo ng normatibong ideolohiya ang pagsusuri, at tuloy ikinukubli ang karanasan ng eksploytasyon at tunggalian ng mga uri. Sinusupil ang mismong konsepto ng ideolohiya, itinatakwil ang mga konteksto’t praktikang pang- institusyonal na siyang yumayari dito. Gamit ang historistiko’t sintomatikong pagbasa ng nobela ni Lualhati Bautista bilang halimbawa, tinatalakay dito ang pagkakaiba ng ideolohiya ng teksto sa diwa ng awtor dahil sa maraming namamagitang puwersa tulad ng alyenasyon at reipikasyon. Sa bisa ng sari-saring mekanismong pang-interpelasyon, …


Shattering Silence: Tracing Speciesism In Philippine Children’S Literature, Chryssa Celestino Dec 2024

Shattering Silence: Tracing Speciesism In Philippine Children’S Literature, Chryssa Celestino

Kritika Kultura

What does it mean to write the animal? In Philippine children’s literature where the population of the nonhuman animal is difficult to ignore, writing (about) them is supposed to aspire familiarization: an action that guides the child reader toward concepts of animality. The nonhuman animal has also been recognized as therapeutic narrative elements, aids in identity construction, and effective fictional teachers of species relationships. The inclusion and, more accurately, the functions of the nonhuman animal in the text, however, are symptomatic of speciesism: the belief in human superiority, and the redundant establishment of their supremacy. Influenced by the insights of …


Inside Out, Outside In: Teaching World Literature Through Philippine Literature, Resil B. Mojares Dec 2024

Inside Out, Outside In: Teaching World Literature Through Philippine Literature, Resil B. Mojares

Kritika Kultura

How to fit a subject so immense into curricular space so small is a continuing challenge in Philippine education, particularly when there are sweeping curricular changes as in the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 (“K-12′′). This paper critiques mechanistic conceptions of “world literature” and “Philippine regional literature” under the proposed new curriculum, and proposes an approach that stresses the interactive, mutually constitutive relations between the two, and thus requires a pedagogical plan in which world literature is taught through Philippine literature, and vice versa. The approach is based not only on the assumption that the two (world/nation) should not …


Queer Aswang Transmedia: Folklore As Camp, Bliss Cua Lim Dec 2024

Queer Aswang Transmedia: Folklore As Camp, Bliss Cua Lim

Kritika Kultura

In recent years, the aswang—a supernatural creature of Philippine folklore that is often associated with female monstrosity and patriarchal misogyny—is being flamboyantly queered across a range of media. The aswang is a centuries-old transmedial, transgeneric figure whose monstrosity has been interpellated by gender-essentialist agendas while nonetheless epitomizing disruptive gender instabilities. In the handful of texts that comprise queer aswang transmedia—a 2011 Filipino novel (Ricky Lee’s Si Amapola sa 65 na Kabanata [Amapola in 65 Chapters]), mainstream film (Mga Bata ng Lagim [Children of Terror], dir. Mar S. Torres, 1964), and amateur digital video (Amabilis 2, Napoleon Lustre, 2011)—the aswang, an …


But For The Apocalypse: Wilfrido Nolledo’S Dark Mirror Of Empire, Ryan Canlas Dec 2024

But For The Apocalypse: Wilfrido Nolledo’S Dark Mirror Of Empire, Ryan Canlas

Kritika Kultura

This essay reads Wilfrido Nolledo’s novel, But for the Lovers (1970), across the rocky terrain in which the postcolonial Anglophone novel intersects with the question of postmodernity. Using Paul Ricoeur’s Memory, History, and Forgetting and Fredric Jameson’s exhortation to the critic to “Always historicize!” as my primary theoretical frameworks, I argue against the seemingly common accusation that the “postmodern” Anglophone Filipino novel––of which But for the Lovers is a kind of prototypical example––is incapable of creating a perspective on the political and historical conditions of the Philippines as a postcolonial nation and that it is merely symptomatic of the much …


Translation Politics In Ilocano-Hawaiian Writing, Ma. Socorro Q. Perez Dec 2024

Translation Politics In Ilocano-Hawaiian Writing, Ma. Socorro Q. Perez

Kritika Kultura

The essay explains the translation process of three GUMIL Hawaii (Gunglo Dagiti Mannurat iti Ilocano ti Hawaii) Ilocano short fiction into English, as the receptor language. Three concerns come to configure in the deployment of postcolonial translation: first, that the exilic sensibility (concerned with rootlessness, departure, leave-takings, nostalgia, etc.) is addressed; second, that the materiality of Ilocano-Hawaiian diasporic culture as distinct from other Asian ethnicities in Hawaii and the Whites is clear; third, that the register of the original is approximated. The translation, therefore, offers a hybridized and syncretic Ilocano-Hawaiian English variety that is at once familiar, estranging and different.


Front Matter, Kritika Kultura Dec 2024

Front Matter, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


“We Were War Surplus, Too”: Nick Joaquin And The Im/Possibilities Of Filipino Historical Becoming, Josen Masangkay Diaz Dec 2024

“We Were War Surplus, Too”: Nick Joaquin And The Im/Possibilities Of Filipino Historical Becoming, Josen Masangkay Diaz

Kritika Kultura

This article reads Nick Joaquin’s 1983 novel Cave and Shadows alongside his persistent engagement with Filipino identity and history to argue that an investigation of Philippine historiography reveals the colonial entrapments of Filipino subjectivity. A mystery novel set in the period immediately preceding Ferdinand Marcos’s 1972 declaration of martial law, it contextualizes Marcos authoritarianism within the scope of post-World War II concerns about national politics in the wake of independence. It also simultaneously grapples with overarching ideas about the legacies of colonial conquest and their effects on the Filipino common sense. Jack Henson’s traversals through Manila find him grappling with …


There Is No Emergency, Conchitina Cruz Dec 2024

There Is No Emergency, Conchitina Cruz

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Fragments Of Impossibility, B. B. P. Hosmillo Dec 2024

Fragments Of Impossibility, B. B. P. Hosmillo

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Four Poems, Francis Paolo Quina Dec 2024

Four Poems, Francis Paolo Quina

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


A Bet With My Uncle Luis (A Translation Of "Una Apuesta Con Mi Tio Luis"), Ma. Luisa P. Young Dec 2024

A Bet With My Uncle Luis (A Translation Of "Una Apuesta Con Mi Tio Luis"), Ma. Luisa P. Young

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


"She Hates Elmo's Voice" And Other Poems, Jim Pascual Agustin Dec 2024

"She Hates Elmo's Voice" And Other Poems, Jim Pascual Agustin

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Small Talk, Kristine Reynaldo Dec 2024

Small Talk, Kristine Reynaldo

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


How Can I Get There?, Laurel Fantauzzo Dec 2024

How Can I Get There?, Laurel Fantauzzo

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.