Legends of the Marias as alter/native texts: A post-colonial ideological inquiry

• Main Author: Dy, Jacquiline F.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2004
• Subjects: Philippine literature; Folk literature; Philippine; Folklore > Philippines; Comparative Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2142
• Institution: De La Salle University

Legends of the Marias as Alter/Native Texts: A Post-colonial, Ideological Inquiry is a look into the role of Maria legends as ideological state apparatuses that could have been used by the colonizers to interpellate the natives, especially the women, into the colonial realm. By analyzing the role of the women protagonists of the legends, the existence and/or absence of local elements in the story, and the setting and storyline of these legends, the study was able to locate the presence of local resistance to the colonial ideology embedded in the texts. This resistance provides an alternative subjectivity which interpellates the reader into a reality other than the ones that constructed by the colonizers. The Maria legends, thus, function in two ways - as tools for colonization and domination or as instruments for change and subversion.