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Announcements. Presentation: W 2/27  Patricia, Cindy, Kathy, Edgar, Sam Final Paper Due : Wed, March 20 by 10:30am @ SSB 245. Transnational Existentialism. identity: essentialism or nihilism?. (post)colonial existentialism.

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  1. Announcements • Presentation: W 2/27  Patricia, Cindy, Kathy, Edgar, Sam • Final Paper Due : Wed, March 20 by 10:30am @ SSB 245

  2. Transnational Existentialism identity: essentialism or nihilism?

  3. (post)colonial existentialism • (post)colonial vs postcolonial  is there ever an end to colonizing power? • Dr. Monson’s visit to Manila • Is it futile to search for the definitions of good/evil & right/wrong? • Context of WWII  Holocaust vs atomic bomb • Existentialism  “existence precedes essence” • What defines one’s life when there are no abstract and overarching systems to believe in? • “Side by side on the sofa they discussed his father and her daughter” (19) • What is the relationship between Dr. Monson and Connie Escobar?

  4. Woman & Nation • PepevsPaco (35) • heterosexual desire inextricable from nationalist feeling (39): “The astonishment had renewed itself all the time he was in Manila, every time he looked up and suddenly saw that sleeping woman outlined against the sky and it changed the indifference with which he had come to his father’s country into a stirring of clan-emotion – a glow, almost, of homecoming” (35)

  5. Maria Makiling • Maria Makiling = diwata– woodland fairy or nymph acting as guardian of Mt. Makiling • Modernity& primitivism defines Manila (40) • La Vidal as Maria Makiling? (41) • Connie Escobar as Maria Makiling? (50) • Paco’sdesire for Connie’s body (57) • Violated nation continues to haunt Paco (61)

  6. “Through the looking glass” • Paco’s fatalism vsPepe’s existentialism (64) • Why is the Philippines represented as wonderland? • 65  Paco and Dr. Monson • How and why are the characters who visit the Philippines represented as “will-deprived ghosts” (73)?

  7. Pt 2: Macho • Macho – southern plantation owner • Telemako = Telemachus • Relationship with La Vidal  corruption of northern and southern islands (120) • Mary Texeira – Paco’s wife • Simone de Beauvoir – “being for others” vs “being for self” • “She moved a little away from Paco, as though to declare her identity; but, awake, she enjoyed, and avidly watching, she shared his sleep, as she had shared the restlessness of the nights before. Those restless nights had told her over and over again that she was no longer ‘I’ but an ‘us’…”(124)

  8. Pt 3: La Vidal • “300 years in the convent and 50 years in Hollywood” • La Vidal as Maganda (156)  aesthetics without ethics • Multiple implications of Magandain Tagalog: beautiful vs good • La Vidal’s marriages = barometer of nation’s ethical state symbolized by cock’s crowing • Esteban Borromeo – bastard of the unfinished revolution (170) • Entrance into the convent? (183) • Manolo Vidal – American collaborator and abortion doctor (178)

  9. Nihilism vs Existentialism • God is dead so either: • Nothing matters; party like a rock star (nihilism) • We must create our own value system; choose your own soul (existentialism) • Connie as nihilist: • two navels as salvation through rejection of the world (199) • “absolutley alone” (200) • “’you retreated not from evil, but only from the struggle against evil” (202) • “’But you’ve got to choose,’ said Father Tony, ‘and you’ve got to feel responsible’” (203) • What does Pepe tell her about her navels? Does it even matter?

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