Exotifying Bodies
Self-Flagellation, Abjection, and Social Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9287201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noel Christian A Moratilla (0000-0002-2798-2337, University of the Philippines Diliman, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0975-2935 • E-ISSN: 0975-2935 |
| Publisher | AesthetixMS: Aesthetics Media Services (PUBLISHER • IN) |
| DOI | 10.21659/rupkatha.v10n3.12 |
| OpenAlex | W2955067612 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
During the Lenten ritual known in the Philippines as penitensya, hooded peninents whip themselves publicly as they walk. While some Church and government officials have repeatedly expressed disapproval of the practice, self-flagellation has persisted with characteristic obduracy to this day. Through mass media and social media, it has caught the attention of other parts of the world. A cursory search on the internet, for example, would yield not a few visual and textual materials on penitensya. Some of these materials are analyzed in this paper, using critical frameworks based on Kristeva's concept of abjection and Jameson's delineation of third-world literature as national allegories. One would encounter such abjection in the decontextualized foregrounding of the grisliness, violence, and horror associated with this form of corporal mortification. As a practice rooted in colonial history, penitensya evokes colonial traumas, but contemporized, it also serves as an allegorical embodiment of collective hopes and possibilities
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Foregrounding · Government (linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |