Reimagining the Fluid Categorization of the Communist, Chinese, and Jews in Umar Kayam's Fiction

• Main Author: Sawarto, Paulus
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Philippine plays; feminized labor; Nora Aunor; Ricardo Lee; Brechtian structure; plays-within- a-play; Superstar; nationalist theater; people's theater
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss35/12; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1850/viewcontent/KK_2035_2C_202020_2012_20Forum_20Kritika_20__20Sarwoto.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This essay revisits DH: Domestic Helper, a 1992 play from the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) that explores how Philippine labor out-migration ensnares female migrant subjects in states of perennial leave-takings and tentative resettlements abroad. The discussion comprehends the su...