Volume 5 Issue 2
2nd Term 2024-2025
Introduction
Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo and John Jack G. Wigley
The last three issues of our journal, Tomás, were monographs.
Volume 2, Issue 2 2023-2024 was Tropical Psycho…
ARCHIVE ON FIRE: SPECTRAL MEMORIES AND DIGITAL PHANTOMS
Ramon Guillermo
In this brief essay, the author reflects on his experience of loss due to the destruction by fire of the University of the Philippines …
MODERNISMO AND THE DREAM OF A NATIONAL LANGUAGE IN RECTO’S ‘BAJO DE LOS COCOTEROS’
Lito B. Zulueta
Claro M. Recto’s Bajo los Cocoteros (1911) reveals an early vision for Philippine nationhood rooted in linguistic identity…
OF CROSS AND CIRCLES: A CATHOLIC READING OF FH BATACAN’S SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES (2015)1
Isaiah F. Garcia
This essay examines FH Batacan’s opus, the crime and detective novel Smaller and Smaller Circles, from the perspective of Catholic literary criticism…
ON THE INFERNO INTERTEXT: THE CHALLENGES AND RIGORS OF TRANSLATING AUGUSTO ANTONIO A. AGUILA’S SHORT FICTION “CARNIVAL OF HATE” (2016)
Jan Raen Carlo M. Ledesma & Aldrin E. Manalastas
This essay discusses the challenges and rigors of translating into Filipino Augusto Antonio A. Aguila’s short fiction titled “Carnival of Hate”…
ANG PAG-AKDA NG KATHA, PAGKATHA NG AKDA NI RICKY LEE
Rolando B. Tolentino
Isa si Ricky Lee na panandangbato sa katha at panitikang Filipino dahil ang kaniyang kabuuang mga kuwento at nobela ay may…
ANG PAMBANSANG GUNITA SA NOBELA (1907-1975)
Soledad S. Reyes
Inilalarawan ng artikulong ito na ilan sa mga nobelang Tagalog na inilimbag noong ika-20 siglo ay nakatuon ang paksa sa ilang…
MARKADO NG TUNGGALIAN: ANG KONSEPTO NG UMUUSBONG NA PANITIKAN SA KATHANG FILIPINO AT ANG UGAT NITO SA POLITIKAL NA PROYEKTO AT KASAYSAYAN NG MGA KILUSANG PAMPANITIKAN
Merdeka D. Morales
Problematiko para sa maraming kritiko ang pagbibigay-kahulugan sa konsepto ng Umuusbong na Panitikan…
ANG HIYÒ NG SAMPALOC, QUEZON: KALIKASAN AT KONTINUUM
Vijae O. Alquisola
Bahagi ng karaniwang karanasan ng karamihan ang pakikinig o pagkarinig sa hiyò (hele). Subalit sa kabila ng malakas…
DEFY
Vince Agcaoili
Suddenly this brokenness. To tell you I lost track Of how long the air preserves Your sighs, how many …
THE UNIVERSE
Lawdenmarc Decamora
You have an affair You risk telling a story about a bruise You have two swords…
GRAY AREA
Maria Amparo N. Warren
The young mother, a part-time writer, takes on a new freelance gig from the small agency that’s located in the university’s teachers’ village…
PAGTATAHIP AT IBA PANG TULA
Andyleen Feje
Matapos mamula at mamuti ang mga paa Kagigiik2 sa mga tinipong uhay3 Tatawagin na ni ina ang…
DAGATUN: KUNG PAANO KO ISINUKA ANG LAHAT SA BAWAT BIYAHE
Hannah Adtoon Leceña
Pasintabi. Pero palagi akong sumusuka tuwing bumibiyahe. Dagatun ang tawag ng mga tao sa kondisyon ko. Yong tipong laging…
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