Genealogy as National History in Jun Cruz Reyes's Etsa-Puwera.
This essay analyses Filipino writer Jun Cruz Reyes's Centennial Literary Prize-winning novel Etsa-Puwera (2000) as a historical novel that makes use of genealogy or family history as a way to contest the historiographic foundations of official, i.e. elite-centred, nationalism. It first embarks upon...
| Published in: | Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 62 - 76 |
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