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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.
“In Archipelagothic, Professor de Chavez has curated a timely and much-needed collection that will set the agenda for the study of Philippine Gothic for years to come. Theoretically informed and incisively focused with regard to its topical range, this volume represents a distinctive contribution to the developing field of Globalgothic.” —William Hughes, University of East Anglia, UK.
“De Chavez’s volume persuasively demonstrates the potential of Gothic as a mode for articulating transcultural anxieties.” —Andrew Ng Hock Soon, Associate Professor, Malaysia School of Arts & Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia.
“Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic, edited by Jeremy De Chavez, compellingly bridges archipelagic and Gothic studies to rethink the transnational Gothic. It traces the intimate entanglements of globalization, the Philippine colonial past and present, Western literary traditions, and multimedial Gothic forms, while foregrounding localized aesthetics, histories, and affective geographies—a vital intervention in global Gothic scholarship.” —Li-hsin Hsu, Professor of English, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
“A must-read for anyone interested in mapping the presence of the Gothic in the Philippines and a significant milestone for Asian Gothic studies. Its archipelagic approach, which resists theoretical enclosure, offers a compelling framework for understanding Gothic iterations across diverse media forms and cultural contexts.” —Katarzyna Ancuta, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
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.