The Vernacular as Method for Memory and Time: A Philological and Cultural Exploration of Filipino Concepts for Memory Studies

• Main Author: Martin, Jocelyn
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: apophatic listening; climate; Diksyunaryo ng Wikang Filipino; translation; trauma; English Language and Literature; Language Interpretation and Translation
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/118; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1117&context=english-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article proposes the vernacular as a discursive methodological entry point to Memory Studies. A bottom-up approach, this article theorizes memory and time starting from a close-reading of signifiers from the Filipino language, thus allowing its culture to be considered in its own terms first. T...