On the Weariness of Time: El Niño in the Philippines

• Main Author: Benitez, Christian Jil R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: panahon; Philippine time; drought; slow violence; climate emergency; El Niño; tropical imaginary; Climate; Emergency and Disaster Management; Environmental Policy; Modern Literature; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/81; https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3819
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

As a rehearsal of a “tropical imaginary” that attempts to accentuate the entanglement of literature with the material world, this essay ‘coincides’ Jose F. Lacaba’s 1965 poem “Ang Kapaguran ng Panahon” (“The Weariness of Time”) with the 2015 El Niño phenomenon in the Philippines­ and its violent cul...