A symptomatic reading of the postmodern in Alamat Comics

• Main Author: Purugganan, Catalina F.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Reading interests; Comic books; strips; etc; Postmodernism (Literature); Literature; Modern > 20th century; English Language and Literature; Modern Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1940
• Institution: De La Salle University

This thesis seeks to provide a symptomatic reading of the postmodern in the new Philippine comics, the Alamat Comics. It uses the theories of Fredric Jameson and other postmodern commentators, Norman K. Denzin and Pauline Marie Rosenau. A systematic account is given in this study to help draw out the features of the postmodern condition and postmodernist culture of the Alamat Comics. This systematic account is comprised of three codes or criteria adapted from the definitions of the postmodern by the aforementioned theorist/commentators. A such, it recognizes and isolates crucial elements that make the comics fundamentally postmodern. The Alamat Comics/postmodern relationship is further argued by periodization, using Jameson's periodizing concept in tandem with Ernest Mandel's tripartite schema.