When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels

This essay reads Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels using the critical templates gleaned from gothic studies and queer theory. The essay explores the idea of doubling and monstrosity and demonstrates how these two gothic tropes are deployed to activate the queer potential found in the chara...

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Main Author:	Lizada, Miguel Antonio N.
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Published:	Archīum Ateneo 2024
Subjects:	Nick Joaquin Philippine novel in English postcolonial Gothic queer theory
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spelling	ph-ateneo-arc.kk-17672024-12-19T02:30:04Z When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels Lizada, Miguel Antonio N. This essay reads Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels using the critical templates gleaned from gothic studies and queer theory. The essay explores the idea of doubling and monstrosity and demonstrates how these two gothic tropes are deployed to activate the queer potential found in the character of Connie Escobar. The essay builds on an existing interpretation of the novel—that the narrative is an account of regeneration—and extends this by arguing that this narrative of transformation is mobilized precisely by a rejection of heteropatriarchal narratives encoded in the novel’s postcolonial world, mobilized in a particular way by the creation and undoing of an imagined bodily monstrosity performed and sustained through a gendered worlding. 2024-12-19T03:09:29Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss30/34 info:doi/10.13185/1656-152x.1767 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1767/viewcontent/KK_2030_2C_202018_20_26_2031_2C_202018_2034_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Nick_20Joaquin_20Now_20Texts_2C_20Concepts_2C_20and_20Approaches_20__20Lizada.pdf Kritika Kultura Archīum Ateneo Nick Joaquin Philippine novel in English postcolonial Gothic queer theory
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description	This essay reads Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels using the critical templates gleaned from gothic studies and queer theory. The essay explores the idea of doubling and monstrosity and demonstrates how these two gothic tropes are deployed to activate the queer potential found in the character of Connie Escobar. The essay builds on an existing interpretation of the novel—that the narrative is an account of regeneration—and extends this by arguing that this narrative of transformation is mobilized precisely by a rejection of heteropatriarchal narratives encoded in the novel’s postcolonial world, mobilized in a particular way by the creation and undoing of an imagined bodily monstrosity performed and sustained through a gendered worlding.
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title	When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels
title_short	When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels
title_full	When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels
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title_sort	when she started acting queer: a queer gothic reading of nick joaquin's the woman who had two navels
publisher	Archīum Ateneo
publishDate	2024
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When She Started Acting Queer: A Queer Gothic Reading of Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels

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