Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gotic, The

Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gotic, The

Joaquin, Nick

$396.00 MXN

Sinopsis

Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained little-known outside his home country despite writing in English. With the post-colonial sensibilities of Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, and Jhumpa Lahiri and an ironic perspective of colonial history resonant with Marques and Llosa, Joaquin is a long-neglected writer ready to join the ranks of the world classics. His work meditates on the questions and challenges of the Filipino individual's new freedom after a long history of colonialism, exploring folklore, centuries-old Catholic rites, the Spanish colonial past, magical realism, and baroque splendour and excess. This collection features his best-known story, 'The Woman Who Had Two Navels,' centred on Philippine emigrants living in Hong Kong and later expanded into a novel, the much-anthologised story 'May Day Eve,' and a canonical play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino.

Editorial:
Penguin Books
Materia
Literatura oriental
ISBN:
978-0-14-313071-0
Páginas:
448
Encuadernación:
Pasta blanda
Idioma:
Inglés

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