Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
Pages 34-43 | Vol. 1 No. 3 | 2022
Womanunulat: Popular critical writing as performance
Katrina Stuart Santiago
De La Salle College of St. Benilde
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Abstract:
This essay discusses the exclusionary principles of the literary establishment in the Philippines using the lens of labor, given critical writing as practice, and gender as performance. It maps out a personal and professional history of writing that is intricately tied to the various voices of other women writing, across different forms, and throughout Philippine history, where women have shown that at the heart of this practice, and at the core of this performance, is freedom.
Keywords: women’s writing, criticism, literary establishment, writing as labor, creative work, critical work
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