The Writing of State of Happiness: Writing the Archipelago

• Main Author: Militante, Clarissa V.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: archipelago; archipelagic; Mikhail Bakhtin; postcolonial; Philippine historical novel; Creative Writing; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Pacific Islands Languages and Societies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss3/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1020/viewcontent/2_Militante_State_20of_20Happiness_Akda_201_283_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

A novelist’s main task is to re-imagine and re-present worlds, re-construct time and space, create new novel forms. But there are three things that a novelist resists as much as they can. A novelist would rather not talk about their own work, as it should not be upon them to interpret what they wrot...