“We Were War Surplus, Too”: Nick Joaquin and the Im/Possibilities of Filipino Historical Becoming

• Main Author: Diaz, Josen Masangkay
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Culture and History; cultural reform; historiography; national artist; The Woman Who Had Two Navels; nationalist epistemology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss24/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1609/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n24_2015_5D_202.1_Article_Diaz.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article reads Nick Joaquin’s 1983 novel Cave and Shadows alongside his persistent engagement with Filipino identity and history to argue that an investigation of Philippine historiography reveals the colonial entrapments of Filipino subjectivity. A mystery novel set in the period immediately pr...