“Total Midnight All Over the Land Escaping Minute by Minute into the Small Hours” Historiography and Baroque Poetics in Nick Joaquin’s A Question of Heroes

• Main Author: Serrano, Vincenz
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Philippine history; narrative; defamiliarization; National Artist for Literature; emplotment; trope; Modern Literature
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/76; http://unitasust.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UNITAS-91-2-Vincenz-Serrano-Historiography-and-Baroque-Poetics.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Nick Joaquin’s A Question of Heroes (1977; 2005) concludes with a long sentence that renders, in a manner that unfolds, his view of the 150-year period he covers in his book. The sentence, whose structure follows the natural progression of the day, is emblematic of Joaquin’s baroque historiography....