Haunting and soul-searching: Primi as national personification in Gina Apostol Bibliolepsy

• Main Author: Villa, Manuel McCann
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Comparative Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2620
• Institution: De La Salle University

This thesis is a study of Gina Apostol Bibliolepsy, a novel written in the form of a memoir told by a woman afflicted with a fictional disease called bibliolepsy. In her memoir, she graphs with the acceptance of her missing parents as she pieces together the flimsy narrative of her questionably fact...