The Forest as Sight, The Forest as Narration: Alvin Yapan's Sandali ng mga Mata

• Main Author: Diaz, Glenn
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: forest; Marxist ecocriticism; Philippine literature; spatio-poetics; spectrality
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss43/7; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2078/viewcontent/KK_2043_2C_202024_207_20Regular_20section_20__20Diaz.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Fredric Jameson argues that the passage from monopoly to late capitalism or globalization has resulted in a “bewildering new world space” marked by a “weakening of historicity,” if not the outright “suppression of history.” As a result, this dizzying, dehistoricized totality has become unrepresentab...