Suchergebnisse

Philippine anthology in a post-anthropology age / Michael L. Tan -- Philippine demography @ 44, continuing tradition of excellence in training and research in nation-building / Corazon M. Raymundo -- Pinoy English, a case of language drift / Jonathan C. Malicsi -- Political science, the discipline, the academe, and Philippine politics / Athene Lydia C. Casambre -- Ang Kasaysayan sa pagbuo ng sambayanan / Jaime B. Veneracion -- The geographical traditions and the reassertion of space in critical social theory and praxis / Meliton B. Juanico

This essay analyzes the representation of transgenderism in Ricky Lee's Tagalog-language novel Si Amapola sa 65 na Kabanata (Amapola in 65 Chapters). By situating the novel against the heteronormative operations of the nation-state, the analysis investigates how Amapola's transformation from a politically apathetic comedy bar performer to an aswang (viscera-stucker) who is desrined to save the nation semantically radicalizes the image of transgenderism through the dynamics of revolutionary subjectification. This investigation then inserts Amapola's transgenderism into the Filipiino history - from the babaylan-led anti-colonial peasant movements during the Spanish and American colonial periods to the contemporary national democratic movement led by the Communist Party of the Philippines.