The mythicizing of the Bikol Tigsik

• Main Author: Matza, Benjamin Xerxes
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Myth in literature; Mythology; Philippine; Literature and society; Personality and culture; Folk literature; Folklore; Poetry > Social aspects; Comparative Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_honors/113
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study involves an analysis of the Bikol Toast or the tigsik using the framework of Roland Barthes's study of popular culture's concept of myths. The foremost concern of this study is to challenge the naturalness and innocence of meanings presented in the text of the tigsik. The genera...