Philippine Philippine, or the Tropics in Cixous’s Dreaming True

• Main Authors: Benitez, Christian Jil, Chittiphalangsri, Phrae
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: decolonial; dreaming true; entanglement; garden; Hélène Cixous; material poetics; philippine; Philippines; telepathy; tropicality; Arts and Humanities; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/113; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/filipino-faculty-pubs/article/1112/viewcontent/benitez__chittiphalangsri_philippine.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Hélène Cixous’s oneiric ideation of the philippine (twin almond)—and by extension, her text Philippines (2009/2011)—primarily evokes love, or that force of attraction between two beings in which one can never say where each begins or ends. It is by the virtue of this entanglement that another philip...