I was asked to give a tribute to Ka Edel Garcellano who was a personal hero to many, a great teacher, and an important, if not the most important literary critic of our time. (The latter's description is not mine, but I wish I had said it). Despite the privilege of having sat in his … Continue reading A tribute to a theorist of freedom
Category: Philippine Studies
Between a desert island as a mythical concept of origin (Deleuze, 2004) and what Deleuze described (later, with Guattari) as a fluent space of composition, independent of “any determined path” (1987: 371), comes a concept of a people that literature alone commands a power to invoke; a people producing itself as force producing new lines … Continue reading Mapping A People to Come
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 