When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels

This essay reads Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels using the critical templates gleaned from gothic studies and queer theory. The essay explores the idea of doubling and monstrosity and demonstrates how these two gothic tropes are deployed to activate the queer potential found in the chara...

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Main Author:	Lizada, Miguel Antonio
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Published:	Archīum Ateneo 2018
Subjects:	Nick Joaquin Philippine novel in English postcolonial Gothic queer theory English Language and Literature Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Online Access:	https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/167 https://ajol.ateneo.edu/kk/articles/82/983
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spelling	ph-ateneo-arc.english-faculty-pubs-11622022-04-25T08:54:27Z When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels Lizada, Miguel Antonio This essay reads Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels using the critical templates gleaned from gothic studies and queer theory. The essay explores the idea of doubling and monstrosity and demonstrates how these two gothic tropes are deployed to activate the queer potential found in the character of Connie Escobar. The essay builds on an existing interpretation of the novel—that the narrative is an account of regeneration—and extends this by arguing that this narrative of transformation is mobilized precisely by a rejection of heteropatriarchal narratives encoded in the novel’s postcolonial world, mobilized in a particular way by the creation and undoing of an imagined bodily monstrosity performed and sustained through a gendered worlding. 2018-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/167 https://ajol.ateneo.edu/kk/articles/82/983 English Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Nick Joaquin Philippine novel in English postcolonial Gothic queer theory English Language and Literature Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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topic	Nick Joaquin Philippine novel in English postcolonial Gothic queer theory English Language and Literature Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
spellingShingle	Nick Joaquin Philippine novel in English postcolonial Gothic queer theory English Language and Literature Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Lizada, Miguel Antonio When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
description	This essay reads Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels using the critical templates gleaned from gothic studies and queer theory. The essay explores the idea of doubling and monstrosity and demonstrates how these two gothic tropes are deployed to activate the queer potential found in the character of Connie Escobar. The essay builds on an existing interpretation of the novel—that the narrative is an account of regeneration—and extends this by arguing that this narrative of transformation is mobilized precisely by a rejection of heteropatriarchal narratives encoded in the novel’s postcolonial world, mobilized in a particular way by the creation and undoing of an imagined bodily monstrosity performed and sustained through a gendered worlding.
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author	Lizada, Miguel Antonio
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title	When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
title_short	When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
title_full	When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
title_fullStr	When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
title_full_unstemmed	When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
title_sort	when she started acting queer: a queer gothic reading of nick joaquin’s the woman who had two navels
publisher	Archīum Ateneo
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url	https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/167 https://ajol.ateneo.edu/kk/articles/82/983
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When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels

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