Journal article
Deterritorialisations of Desire: “Transgressive” Sexuality as Filipino Anti-Imperialist Resistance in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters
Philament: A Journal of Literature, Arts and Culture, Vol.7, pp.22-41
2005
Abstract
In The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture (first published in 1987), Franco Moretti cites the bildungsroman genre of “development” and/ or “coming of age” narrative as a specifically European literary phenomenon that constitutes “the ‘symbolic form’ of modernity” 1. According to Moretti, the bildungsroman is the emblematic literary form that embodies a moment in Western development, prompting him to open his book with “Youth is, so to speak, modernity’s ‘essence,’ the sign of a world that seeks its meaning in the future rather than in the past” 2. Offering a list of Western texts to push the notion that modernity and forwards-movement are specifically European traits immortalized in the bildungsroman, Moretti names his protagonists: Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Austin’s Elizabeth Bennet, Stendhal’s Julien Sorel, Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Balzac’s Rastignac, etc…
Details
- Title
- Deterritorialisations of Desire: “Transgressive” Sexuality as Filipino Anti-Imperialist Resistance in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters
- Authors/Creators
- R.K. Gairola (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Philament: A Journal of Literature, Arts and Culture, Vol.7, pp.22-41
- Publisher
- Supra: The University of Sydney
- Identifiers
- 991005544604307891
- Copyright
- 2019 Philament Journal
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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