Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels

Thisarticle revisits the debate in 2010 among Philippine Daily Inquirer columnists over the question of whether or not, in José Rizal’s novel Noli me tángere, Padre Damaso “raped” Maria Clara’s mother, Pia Alba, a debate inspired by the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill. Thearticle examines how Rizal em...

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Main Author: Hau, Caroline S.;
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-42172024-08-07T03:42:03Z Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels Hau, Caroline S.; Thisarticle revisits the debate in 2010 among Philippine Daily Inquirer columnists over the question of whether or not, in José Rizal’s novel Noli me tángere, Padre Damaso “raped” Maria Clara’s mother, Pia Alba, a debate inspired by the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill. Thearticle examines how Rizal employs rhetorical strategies of reticence and revelation along with literary onomastics and allusions in his two novels to create meanings and associations that open his novels to multiple, even competing, interpretations. Such ambiguity reveals the artistic, intellectual, and political stakes of interpretation, which involves not only the struggle for understanding and struggle over meaning, but also the struggle to make, unmake, and remake community.Keywords: Rizal • novels • interpretation • crowds and people • community 2017-06-23T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol65/iss2/2 info:doi/10.13185/2244-1638.4217 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4217/viewcontent/6343.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Thisarticle revisits the debate in 2010 among Philippine Daily Inquirer columnists over the question of whether or not, in José Rizal’s novel Noli me tángere, Padre Damaso “raped” Maria Clara’s mother, Pia Alba, a debate inspired by the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill. Thearticle examines how Rizal employs rhetorical strategies of reticence and revelation along with literary onomastics and allusions in his two novels to create meanings and associations that open his novels to multiple, even competing, interpretations. Such ambiguity reveals the artistic, intellectual, and political stakes of interpretation, which involves not only the struggle for understanding and struggle over meaning, but also the struggle to make, unmake, and remake community.Keywords: Rizal • novels • interpretation • crowds and people • community
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author Hau, Caroline S.;
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Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels
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title Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels
title_short Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels
title_full Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels
title_fullStr Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels
title_full_unstemmed Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in José Rizal’s Novels
title_sort did padre damaso rape pia alba? reticence, revelation, and revolution in josé rizal’s novels
publisher Archīum Ateneo
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