RT Journal Article
T1 Resilience and healing in the slums of Manila: Merlinda Bobis’s The solemn lantern maker
A1 Martín Lucas, María Belén
K1 6202.02 Análisis Literario
K1 62 Ciencias de las Artes y las Letras
AB This article examines Merlinda Bobis’s novel The Solemn Lantern Maker (2008) with recourse to affect theories on terror and vulnerability. The narrative addresses harsh realities like children’s prostitution, extreme poverty, and brutal corruption, and puts these apparently Philippine “domestic” matters in direct relation to globalization and to the so-called war on terror. The analysis of the narrative pays attention to the strategies of resilience and healing developed by vulnerable civilians, taking into account the increasing degrees of risk at the intersection of race, ethnic, class, age and gender differences. It examines how such differences are negotiated in the text via reciprocal care among the main characters in a context of extreme violence.
PB World Literature Studies
SN 13379275
YR 2023
FD 2023-06-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/7107
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/7107
LA eng
NO World Literature Studies, 15(2): 6-18 (2023)
DS Investigo
RD 15-sep-2024