Subaltern ilustrado

• Main Author: Recoter, Riddick Matthew P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Comparative Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2814
• Institution: De La Salle University

In whose-- or which-- consciousness does the ilustrado afford his voice, if not to his mother tongue nor especially not with his acquisition of an artificial accent? The highly acclaimed, multi-awarded novel of Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado, takes on multiple narratives which alienate the protagonists Miguel Syjuco to imbibe multiple voices, differing consciousness, which resonate throughout the book. Grounded on these narratives, the modern day ilustrado protagonist attempts to weave through the passages in an attempt to speak with the discourse of multiplicity that confuses and marginalizes him. This study is an examination of a potential unique subversive dimension in which, grounded on the idea that Miguel Syjuco is unable to speak in the hegemonic discourse of multiplicy in Ilustrado, the modern day ilustrado is positioned as the subaltern attempting to speak. With the theories of Gayari Chakravorty Spivak supplementing the discussions on the subaltern and power discourse against the dialogistic discourse of Mikhail Bakhtin, this study offers to conceptualize a new subaltern in the form of the modern day ilustrado, and his attempt to speak.