Queer Tropical Gothic: Parody, Failure, Space in Nick Joaquin’s “Gotita de Dragon”

• Main Author: Ritumban, Raymon D.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: children’s literature; Gotita de Dragon; Manila red-light districts; Nick Joaquin; Pasig River; queer tropical gothic; tropical materialisms; Arts and Humanities; Creative Writing; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/215; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/english-faculty-pubs/article/1216/viewcontent/ritumban_gotita_de_dragon_philippines.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The stories for children by Filipino literary master Nick Joaquin (1917-2004), when compared to his famous works, have received scant attention even though they are as masterfully written and thematically sophisticated. Out of Joaquin’s fifteen children’s stories produced between 1972 and 1983, “Got...