Merlinda Bobis
Biographic Data
| ID | 777359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merlinda Bobis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merlinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Bobis |
| SIGNATURE | BOBIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
Confounding light: Subversion and Transnational Sympathy
This essay proposes the concept of ‘transnational sympathy’ aligned with decoloniality and the Philippine social value of kapwa as reflected in Merlinda Bobis's novel The Solemn Lantern Maker, which is about the neo-colonial forces of globalisation and the post-9/11 war on terror. Transnational sympathy is discussed in relation to the architectonics of the novel in which story, art, and social design evoke each other, and embody an alternative de…
This is where it begins
Digde ini nagpopoon. Anum na taon ako, siguro lima. Si Lola nag-iistorya manongod sa parahabon nin kasag Na nagtatago sa irarom kan kama
The Asian Conspiracy: Deploying Voice/Deploying Story
This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert 'translations' of difference' that facilitate the entry of the Other story through the gate. And once inside, imagine how this Otherness is legitimised, packaged and consumed within the Australian nation.' (p. 3)
The Sweetest Potato
You have to dig deep for the sweetest potato. It hides, you see, knowing that only the patient worker deserves its gift of sweetness,” my brother Bolodoy once said. But this was not a time of sweetness. “You have to dig deeper, so the dead can no longer hear the living, not even when they walk over the grave, ay, the dead must have no reason to turn,” the gravedigger Pay Inyo advised. He insisted that, down there, the dead might still want to ide…
Coffee Grove (a chapter fromFish-Hair Woman)
They say I died when I was five years old and Pilar had a change of heart, as if all its little corners had refurbished themselves. How I wish I had stayed dead. I could have dreamt up life as a pe
Storying: Dream and Deployment
The essay discusses how a militarised community deploys story-telling against actual military deployment and explains how the author attempts a similar tactical response in writing a novel on the subject. The master narrative of militarism subsumes/shatters the small stories of daily life in the village but these stories are re-instated/re-deployed through subversive modes of narrativising. Using lived and told stories from the total war (1987–19…
‘Voice-Niche-Brand’: Marketing Asian-Australianness
panel cause me discomfort: MARKET and ASIAN-AUSTRALIANNESS. According to Mexican
The making-better herb
It is like a short variety of kogon grass. It thrusts upwards into stiff, thin and wiry blades that bend or fold as they grow taller, incapable of sustaining the initial rigid outburst. It is self-sufficient and incorrigible. One bulb shoots up, multiplies and overruns a whole garden and beyond. It aspires to flavour all of the earth. A ‘fresh lemony tang’ is the most pedestrian way to describe its abilities. To do it justice, one must cite the a…
Beloved
New storytellers
New storytellers from America, Australia and The Philippines discuss their working processes, performance techniques and their source material
Confounding light: Subversion and Transnational Sympathy
This essay proposes the concept of ‘transnational sympathy’ aligned with decoloniality and the Philippine social value of kapwa as reflected in Merlinda Bobis's novel The Solemn Lantern Maker, which is about the neo-colonial forces of globalisation and the post-9/11 war on terror. Transnational sympathy is discussed in relation to the architectonics of the novel in which story, art, and social design evoke each other, and embody an alternative de…
The Asian Conspiracy: Deploying Voice/Deploying Story
This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert 'translations' of difference' that facilitate the entry of the Other story through the gate. And once inside, imagine how this Otherness is legitimised, packaged and consumed within the Australian nation.' (p. 3)
Storying: Dream and Deployment
The essay discusses how a militarised community deploys story-telling against actual military deployment and explains how the author attempts a similar tactical response in writing a novel on the subject. The master narrative of militarism subsumes/shatters the small stories of daily life in the village but these stories are re-instated/re-deployed through subversive modes of narrativising. Using lived and told stories from the total war (1987–19…
New storytellers
New storytellers from America, Australia and The Philippines discuss their working processes, performance techniques and their source material
Beloved
The making-better herb
It is like a short variety of kogon grass. It thrusts upwards into stiff, thin and wiry blades that bend or fold as they grow taller, incapable of sustaining the initial rigid outburst. It is self-sufficient and incorrigible. One bulb shoots up, multiplies and overruns a whole garden and beyond. It aspires to flavour all of the earth. A ‘fresh lemony tang’ is the most pedestrian way to describe its abilities. To do it justice, one must cite the a…
‘Voice-Niche-Brand’: Marketing Asian-Australianness
panel cause me discomfort: MARKET and ASIAN-AUSTRALIANNESS. According to Mexican
The Sweetest Potato
You have to dig deep for the sweetest potato. It hides, you see, knowing that only the patient worker deserves its gift of sweetness,” my brother Bolodoy once said. But this was not a time of sweetness. “You have to dig deeper, so the dead can no longer hear the living, not even when they walk over the grave, ay, the dead must have no reason to turn,” the gravedigger Pay Inyo advised. He insisted that, down there, the dead might still want to ide…
Coffee Grove (a chapter fromFish-Hair Woman)
They say I died when I was five years old and Pilar had a change of heart, as if all its little corners had refurbished themselves. How I wish I had stayed dead. I could have dreamt up life as a pe
Storying: Dream and Deployment
The essay discusses how a militarised community deploys story-telling against actual military deployment and explains how the author attempts a similar tactical response in writing a novel on the subject. The master narrative of militarism subsumes/shatters the small stories of daily life in the village but these stories are re-instated/re-deployed through subversive modes of narrativising. Using lived and told stories from the total war (1987–19…
This is where it begins
Digde ini nagpopoon. Anum na taon ako, siguro lima. Si Lola nag-iistorya manongod sa parahabon nin kasag Na nagtatago sa irarom kan kama
The Asian Conspiracy: Deploying Voice/Deploying Story
This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert 'translations' of difference' that facilitate the entry of the Other story through the gate. And once inside, imagine how this Otherness is legitimised, packaged and consumed within the Australian nation.' (p. 3)
Confounding light: Subversion and Transnational Sympathy
This essay proposes the concept of ‘transnational sympathy’ aligned with decoloniality and the Philippine social value of kapwa as reflected in Merlinda Bobis's novel The Solemn Lantern Maker, which is about the neo-colonial forces of globalisation and the post-9/11 war on terror. Transnational sympathy is discussed in relation to the architectonics of the novel in which story, art, and social design evoke each other, and embody an alternative de…
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philippine History and Culture (3 works) · Advertising (2 works)