Postcolonial Pharmakon: Traumatic Transmission in Tony Perez's Cubao-Kalaw Kalaw-Cubao

• Main Author: Ku, Ryan
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Catholicism; deconstruction; kapwa; modernism; postcolonial; trauma; writing
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss38/11; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1914/viewcontent/KK_2038_2C_202022_2011_20Regular_20section_20__20Ku.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Tracing Tony Perez’s Filipino modernism in Cubao–Kalaw Kalaw–Cubao to trauma, this article considers whether the novel’s processing of psychic trauma also amounts to the processing of national trauma. Seemingly positing representation as the means of traumatic processing, Perez, in distinguishing th...