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Gender, language, and identity in dogeaters: a postcolonial critique

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Ashok, Savitri
Keywords
postcolonialism
gender
patriarchy
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Cultural ethics
Cultural/intercultural ethics

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Abstract
"Jessica Hagedorn’s 1990 novel is set in postcolonial Philippines, during the years of nation building and martial law under President Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled Philippines from 1965 to 1986. Nationalism, as it appears in the revisionary history of Dogeaters, continues the oppression of colonialism by remolding the binary paradigm on which the colonial conquests were based. If the imperialist patriarchy justified its colonizing endeavors by presenting the conquered as the different, savage, inferior and exotic other, nationalism involves a concerted attempt at the recovery of the manhood lost in colonization, projecting woman as the other, to be gazed at, tamed, conquered, and enjoyed. Nation building in postcolonial Philippines becomes a search for recovering a lost masculinity for the indigenous men of power. Hagedorn’s feminism opens up a site in the text for a succinct critique of the anti-woman tendencies inhering in nationalism. The patriarchal, forked imaging of the woman as the virgin or the whore is replicated in some of the novel’s women-characters. The female figures in Filipino postcolonial society portrayed by Hagedorn embody the “patriarchal contradictions [and] bring together the dichotomized icons of idealized femininity and degraded whoredom, of feminine plenitude and feminine lack” (Chang 639-40). Zenaida, “Mother of a whore” and “a whore of a mother” (Hagedorn, Dogeaters 205) is a disembodied “deviant, impure femininity” (Chang 640), appearing in the background haze of the novel, a ghostly figure trampled by patriarchy."(pg 1)
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2009
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