The national fire in Erwin Castillo's The firewalkers: An ideological critique

• Main Author: Sentero, Ailene Lauren L.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2006
• Subjects: Erwin E. Castillo > Criticism and interpretation; Bienvenido L. Lumbera, 1932- > Criticism and interpretation; Erwin E. Castillo. Firewalkers; Historical fiction; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/5088
• Institution: De La Salle University

This thesis is an ideological critique of the novel, The Firewalkers (1992), by Erwin Castillo. This thesis used Catherine Belsey's concept of ideology in her work, Critical Practice (1990). Through presenting the struggles and hardships of the Filipinos in the novel, this novel fits in Lumbera...