Nick Joaquin
A portrait of the existentialist as Filipino
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12131872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fernando N Zialcita (Ateneo de Manila University, corresponding author), FERNANDO ZIALCITA |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-223 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Englishes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-971x.1990.tb00260.x |
| OpenAlex | W2007909910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Nick Joaquin is generally regarded as the best writer in English in the Philippines. Despite the fact that most of his characters are drawn largely from the Spanish‐speaking elite, now greatly diminished in numbers, he is able to explore significant dimensions of the cultural construction of self in the Philippines with great sympathy and discernment. Joaquin, in the manner of Western existentialists, seeks to interpret the self as a dynamic process forever exploring, interrogating and reaffirming itself against the background of Filipino culture, and these issues relate interestingly to the question of writing in English in the Philippines
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Discernment · Elite · Epistemology · Existentialism · Political science · Portrait · San Joaquin · Sociology · Sympathy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |