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Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic

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Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited volume that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first b...
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Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited collection that brings together essays examining the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, regions, and languages. While the essays in this collection do not reach a consensus regarding the gothic, they all refract the meaning of the term to expand its utility, so that it may properly speak to the Philippines’s longue durée of multiple colonialisms and various regional cultures that coexist under the umbrella of the nation. The various permutations of the gothic within the various regional cultures, languages, colonial histories, and uneven experiences of globalization are what the editor of this volume refers to as instances of “archipelagothic.” All the contributors are recognized experts in their areas of study, and their essays were specifically commissioned for this volume, which includes the gothic in (1) Philippine literature in English, (2) Tagalog literature, (3) regional literature, (4) cinema, (5) TV, and (6) comics and graphic novels. Archipelagothic will be an excellent introductory text as well as a substantial resource to researchers working in the areas of gothic studies, postcolonial literature, and world literature broadly, and global-gothic and the postcolonial gothic, specifically.

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Price: £25.00
Pages: 250
Publisher: Anthem Press
Imprint: Anthem Press
Series: Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781785279317
Format: eBook
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Literature: history and criticism

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Jeremy C. De Chavez is an associate professor of literature in English at the University of Macau.

1. Introduction: Archipelagothic, or the (Global)Gothic in Philippine Culture, Jeremy De Chavez; 2. Memories of Ghosts: Exploring the Gothic in Philippine Literature in English, Thomas Leonard Shaw; 3. Lineation, Seriality, and Suspension as Modes of Deployment of Darkness in Tagalog Literature, Edgar Calabia Samar; 4. Visayan Hacienda Stories as Gothic Fiction, Genevieve L. Asenjo; 5. The Gothic Affliction in Philippine Cinema, Shirley O. Lua; 6. Televisual Gothic in the Philippines, Louie Jon A. Sanchez; 7. Philippine Komiks and the Gothic: Haunting the Page, Marie Rose B. Arong; References; Glossary of Terms.