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Lead Researcher(s): <\/strong>Marie Rose B. Arong Introduction: <\/b>The gothic in Philippine literature is rarely, if at all, critically examined. Part of this absence has to do with the inherent difficulty of defining the gothic and locating it in the Philippines. Gothic, for the most part, would seem to be an entirely Western form. Indeed, if we consider that the gothic imaginary arose in the late eighteenth-century British society due to a wave of anti-Catholicism (Hoeveler 2012, 5), it may seem uncanny to be writing about the gothic in the Philippines, which continues to be a very Catholic country (latest figures show about 80% of Filipinos are nominally Catholic). The Philippines, like most Asian countries, still primarily associates the term gothic with architecture (Ancuta 2012, 209). However, a review of various Philippine fiction anthologies reveals a different story altogether. Included in these anthologies are various [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_text=”Access here” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” button_url=”https:\/\/anthempress.com\/books\/archipelagothic-studies-in-the-philippine-gothic-hb” url_new_window=”on” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#8A1538″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lead Researcher(s): Marie Rose B. ArongStatus: Published Introduction: The gothic in Philippine literature is rarely, if at all, critically examined. Part of this absence has to do with the inherent difficulty of defining the gothic and locating it in the Philippines. Gothic, for the most part, would seem to be an entirely Western form. Indeed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[52],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3254","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","project_category-book-chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3254\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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manifestations of the gothic in Philippine literature, almost two decades after Nick Joaquin started writing his own version of gothic stories in the 1940s including \u201cMay Day Eve,\u201d \u201cSummer Solstice,\u201d and \u201cGuardia de Honor.\u201d In the two-volume anthology of Philippine short fiction in English (stories originally published from 1956 to 1972), the editor, Gemino Abad, includes several short stories that adopt the tropical gothic: Joaquin\u2019s \u201cDo\u00f1a Jer\u00f3nima,\u201d Wilfredo Nolledo\u2019s \u201cCadena de Amor,\u201d Alfred Yuson\u2019s \u201cThe Hill of Samuel\u201d and Resil Mojares\u2019s \u201cBeast in the Fields.\u201d In his introduction, Abad (2008, xxv\u2013xxvi) situates these stories under the \u201cnonrealist\u201d category or \u201cstories of the marvelous and the supernatural.\u201d He describes these stories as \u201cthe gothic tale, which recounts supernatural beings, such as fairies and ghosts, or humans with supernatural power\u201d (Abad 2008, xxv).<\/p>\n