The Ruse of Reading: The Postcolonial Literary Marketplace and the Novels of Gina Apostol

• Main Author: Martin, Maria Gabriela
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: postcolonial; literary marketplace; authorial strategy; cosmopolitanism; native informant; Modern Literature; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/158; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1158&context=english-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper explores the politics of reading in the novelistic production of Gina Apostol in relation to Sarah Brouillette’s analysis of the postcolonial literary marketplace, Timothy Brennan’s critique of cosmopolitanism, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s tracking of the native informant in postcolon...