Isagani Cruz and His Fiction: A Footnote to the “Deconstructive Effect of Feminist Materialism on the Newly-Discovered Cordillera Archives”

• Main Author: Cruz, Isidoro M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: deconstruction; feminist materialism; patriarchy; capitalism; Cordillera archives; 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/vol3/iss1/5; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1049/viewcontent/4_Cruz.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

A cursory reading of Isagani R. Cruz’s literary theory and criticism on one hand, and his fiction on the other, suggests a disparity between Cruz as a scholarly literary critic and Cruz as a fictionist of stories “for adults only”; however, a detail in one of his short stories in his book, Father So...