This critique centers on Antonio R. Enriquez’s Samboangan: The Cult of War (2006). It explores how the writer retells his hometown’s early colonial history using his Chavacano voice and how he writes back to voice out such an unfamiliar Philippine historical event. This paper also discusses how Enriquez’s historiographic metafiction works on improvisation to refashion such a history, including the extent of such reinterpretation while looking at his narrative style. It is found that, despite Enriquez’s improvising, the fashioning was to a considerable extent. Enriquez interestingly lauded in “his story” the Philippine culture’s exceptionality using a syncretic narrative. He also exalted the Filipinos—be they Tagalogs, Visayans, or Muslims—who naturally embodied extraordinary force as a people amidst the adversities at the hands of their colonizers. Enriquez writes back against the hegemonic historical accounts by providing a balanced perspective of the Christians’ and Moros’ involvement in the wars—exposing their strengths and weaknesses, victories and failures.

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Raquitico, K. L. (2022). Fashioning History into His Story: Antonio R. Enriquez’s Samboangan: The Cult of War. DALIN Journal, 1(2), 1–4. https://www.leapphil.org/_files/ugd/405de6_d4742b62ab2f49abaaeed3f66b505660.pdf?index=true

Nick Joaquin explored and revealed the intricacies of the Filipino religious imagination in his works, which in turn presented prime examples of theological traditions. While previous readings of the story problematized these concepts, they did not consider a crucial dimension of this text—the presence of a preacher-narrator as evidenced by the very nature of the text and the presence of first-person pronouns. This critique, therefore, attempts to explore the theology packed within Joaquin’s story by presenting how the narrator intervenes in the story and the theological concept the narrator conveys to the imagined readers. The preacher-narrator’s identity is unearthed; likewise, a legend—apart from being an entertaining tale and a cultural artifact—could have disseminated an ideology advocated by the preacher-narrator.

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Wyson, J. D. B. (2022). Reimagining the narrator as theologian in Nick Joaquin’s The Legend of the Dying Wanton. DALIN Journal, 1(2), 5–9. https://www.leapphil.org/_files/ugd/405de6_44ef8ce6f6304f179478acfd38d2780b.pdf 

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Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography is commonly read as feminist or progressive literature. In the same way, societal values are not static. The continuous evolution of the feminist and social justice movements has meant that the nuance of Orlando as progressive literature has also evolved. This study employs Foucault’s theory of new historicism, which seeks to evaluate literature as an element shaping history, to trace these trends while mirroring them with Woolf’s constraints. A chronological review of feminist readings of Orlando found that Woolf’s interpretation of gender as a social construct supports key tenets of second-wave feminism and third-wave perspectives on androgyny but that Orlando, in its totality, falls short in fulfilling contemporary intersectional ideals. These findings are significant in clarifying the limit of literature as an apparatus for social justice, thereby ascertaining the scale of its impact.

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Guinto, V. M. (2022). “Such is the indomitable nature of the spirit of the age:” A New Historicist Analysis of the influence of personal struggles on social discourse through Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography. DALIN Journal, 1(2), 10–17. https://www.leapphil.org/_files/ugd/405de6_6a900c9190ed4573917ec4f16fa09a15.pdf 

The study of women goes beyond gender roles, exposing the intricate societal structure and power struggle by slowly tracing how women have fought against oppression and for an equal place in society. If studied from this epistemic standpoint, it has the potential to advance discourses for equal opportunity and empowerment for women. The increasing number of female migrants raises the question of whether women’s migration is an act of empowerment or a form of oppression. Not only women’s narratives of their struggles are detailed by statistics but also in literature. This research examines women’s role in migration using the novel The Mango Bride, authored by Marivi Soliven in 2013. Using a Marxist-Feminist analysis as well as various theories on the sexual division of labor, class differences, and the commodification of women, this study investigates migration and woman representation in tracing the formation of a feminist mindset. It was found that three main mindsets shaped how women view other women or themselves in the context of migration, affecting their decision: 1) Migration is evidence of the sexual division of labor; 2) The struggles of female migrants vary from class to class; and 3) Migration can be used by the patriarchy and capitalism to commodify women. Ultimately, the mindset that aside from being an opportunity, migration can be viewed as a form of women’s oppression.

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Lampos, Ma. I., Galla, H. G., & Jocson, J. (2022). Marxist-Feminist Mindsets on Women and Migration. DALIN Journal, 1(2), 18–24. https://www.leapphil.org/_files/ugd/405de6_5eafc62acc074f17916c69164827d4d6.pdf?index=true

Nilalayon ng papel na makapaglatag ng ilang mungkahing pamamaraan sa pagtuturo ng asignaturang Malikhaing Pagsulat sa senior high school sa konteksto ng kasalukuyang mga kontradiksyon sa K to 12 kurikulum ng sistema ng edukasyon sa Pilipinas. Partikular itong nakaangkla sa usapin hinggil sa kahandaan ng mga guro o kung paano ituturo ang malikhaing pagsulat ng mga gurong hindi naman manunulat at kung kailangan bang mayroong karanasan sa pagsusulat o kahit papaano ay naging fellow sa mga workshop para lamang magkaroon ng lihitimasyon sa pagtuturo nito. Nakasandig sa refleksibong sipat sa pedagohiya mula sa sariling danas bilang guro ng panitikan ang papel na ito. Upang bigyang katwiran ang personal na danas sa pagtuturo ng malikhaing pagsulat at makabuo ng ilang mungkahing pedagohikal, ginamit bilang metodolohiya ang kritikal na rebyu ng literatura. Higit itong nakatuon sa paglalatag ng ilang pagsasanay sa klase na umuugat sa sariling danas sa pagtuturo at paglalapat ng mga pangunahing batayang prinsipyo ng kritikal na pedagohiya ni Paolo Freire. Binibigyang diin dito ang saysay ng larang ng malikhaing pagsulat sa paghubog ng kritikal na kamalayang umuugat sa lokal na kultura at kondisyong panlipunan. Ang guro tulad ng manunulat ay kritikal ang papel na ginagampanan sa transpormasyong panlipunan at esensyal sa ganitong tunguhin ang mapagpalayang pedagohiya.

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Adaya, J. (2022). Ang malikhaing pagsulat sa klasrum o kung paano pagaganahin ang Haraya sa pagtuturo: Ilang mungkahing pedagohikal. DALIN Journal, 1(2), 25–34. https://www.leapphil.org/_files/ugd/405de6_2ea8b4851c024d9d8ba1b92d05e5e218.pdf 

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Ranario, R. (2022). Tagpuan. DALIN Journal, 1(2), 44–45. https://www.leapphil.org/_files/ugd/405de6_778e66265d664382972d99f1a3cd3313.pdf?index=true

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Majul, M. A. (2022). Calumny, Veritas, and Lie. DALIN Journal, 1(2), 46. https://www.leapphil.org/_files/ugd/405de6_e8559ab31bac48ab99ca242e21c248fa.pdf