Vernacular Virtual: Toward a Philippine New Materialist Poetics Authors

• Main Author: Benitez, Christian Jil R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: new materialism; material poetics; tropical materialism; onomatopoeia; Philippine vernacular; folk poetry; Jose Garcia Villa; Arts and Humanities; English Language and Literature; Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America; Modern Literature; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/108; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=filipino-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This essay turns to and through the Philippine vernacular in order to open up the possibility of a new materialist regard of literature, one that specifically stems from the Philippine tropics. It proposes that the opportunity for such a tropical materialism rests on the onomatopoeism observed in th...