Womanunulat: Popular critical writing as performance

• Main Author: Santiago, Katrina Stuart
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: women’s writing; criticism; literary establishment; writing as labor; creative work; critical work; 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/iss3/5; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1022/viewcontent/4_Santiago_Womanunulat_Akda_201_283_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This essay discusses the exclusionary principles of the literary establishment in the Philippines using the lens of labor, given critical writing as practice, and gender as performance. It maps out a personal and professional history of writing that is intricately tied to the various voices of other...