EDEL GARCELLANO, THE FILIPINO CRITIC IN A TIME OF WAR

Authors

  • Caroline S. Hau Kyoto University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70922/bjgxzz18

Abstract

Edel Garcellano’s coruscating wit, trenchant analyses, and principled critical stance and interventions on literary, cultural, social, and political issues have made him one of the most influential, though underappreciated, critics of our time. This article combines personal reminiscences with an attempt to provide a preliminary overview of Garcellano’s key ideas about the inter-disciplinal task of imagination and criticism, the role of “the Filipino critic in a time of war” (to use Garcellano’s term) and the necessity of engaging in “contrapuntal readings” that interrogate the politics of reading, writing and the text, while remaining vigilant about the location and locution of the critic herself/himself.

Author Biography

  • Caroline S. Hau, Kyoto University

    Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Her books include Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946-1980; On the Subject of the Nation: Filipino Writings from the Margins, 1981-2004; (co- edited with J.Paul Manzanilla) Remembering/Rethinking EDSA; and Interpreting Rizal.

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Published

2021-12-31

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Vol. 7 (2021): Entrada

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EDEL GARCELLANO, THE FILIPINO CRITIC IN A TIME OF WAR. (2021). Entrada, 7. https://doi.org/10.70922/bjgxzz18