Philippine Fiction: Essays from Philippine Studies (1953-1972)

Philippine Fiction gathers from the pages of Philippine Studies twenty years of postwar literary criticism in the Philippines. Fourteen critics analyze the works of Nick Joaquin, Gregorio Brillantes, Bienvenido Santos, Kerima Polotan, Edilberto K. Tiempo, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Arturo B. Rotor, Alejandro R. Roces, Linda Ty Casper, Emigdio Alvarez Enriquez, Liesel Commans Quirino, and Jose Rizal. Almost unanimously, the critics underline the theme of the Filipino as a stranger in his own house, the Asian Mearsault searchins for his own identity, grappling with alienation and frustration. The critics also place the writer of Philippine fiction in English within the context of his generation as well as of the world. The present collection is a significant contribution to Philippine writing and contemporary criticism.

Published in 1972 by Ateneo De Manila University Press

239 pages / Paperback