History as Rumor: The Political Fantasy of the Negrense Elite in Vicente Groyon'sThe Sky Over Dimas

• Main Author: Martin, Mayel P.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: historical novel; historiographic metafiction; Negros; political unconscious; postmodernism
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss14/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1169/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n14_2010_5D_202.1_Article_Martin.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This ideological critique reads Vicente Groyon’s The Sky Over Dimas in its appropriation of historiographic metafiction. The paper argues that its two borrowed modes, historiography and metafiction, function as a symbolic act following Fredric Jameson’s Marxist interpretive ground of the political....