(NOV.7)鈥 The July to December 2017 issue of 鈥淗umanities 茄子视频app鈥 () has a new editor-in-chief (EIC) and is now available online.
At the helm of the journal鈥檚 latest issue is Prof. Patrick F. Campos, Assistant Professor at the UP Film Institute and UP College of Mass Communication聽Office of Research and Publication鈥檚 current director. He succeeded the late Dr. Reuben Ramas Ca帽ete, former Asian Center professor who served as the journal鈥檚 EIC in 2015.
Campos said HD Vol.14 No. 2, which features five articles and two reviews, was the last issue that Ca帽ete began to edit before he passed away on Feb. 17.
The articles are: 鈥淯sbong na Pagtat谩ya: Tangka sa Pagpapalawig sa Katuturan ng Sosyolohiya sa Pilipinas (Usbong sa Pagtat谩ya: Assessing the Affordance of Sociology in the Philippines)鈥 by Dennis S. Erasga; 鈥淢ula mga 鈥業nternational Exposition鈥 tungong 鈥楳anila Carnival鈥 Pagtatanghal ng Filipino sa mga Eksposisyong Industriyal at Komersiyal (From 鈥業nternational Expositions to 鈥楳anila Carnival鈥 Presenting the Filipino as 鈥楾ribal People鈥 and 鈥楤eauty Queen鈥 In Industrial and Commercial Expositions鈥 by Raul C. Navarro; 鈥淎 Rhetorical Analysis of Isabelo F. de los Reyes鈥檚 El Tinguian鈥 by I枚 M. Jularbal; 鈥淟arawan ng Cama-cama Bilang Filipino: Ang Imahen ng Nacion ni Adelina Gurrea (Portrait of the Cama-cama as Filipino: Adelina Gurrea鈥檚 Image of Nacion)鈥 by Arbeen R. Acu帽a and 鈥淐ontesting a National Cinema in Becoming: The Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival (2005-2014)鈥 by Emerald O. Flaviano.
According to Campos, the articles in the current issue represent 鈥渢wo trajectories of narrating the nation.鈥
He said in reading the articles 鈥渨e can imagine the two narrative vectors of national temporality as being, in crucial moments, intersected and overlapped by forces that do not belong to the nation.鈥
鈥淭hese forces come in the form of colonial influence, foreign ideas and 鈥榞lobal鈥 values. And these forces, as far as the contributing authors in this issue are concerned, are to be resisted, appropriated, reversed, or problematized,鈥 Campos added.
Erasga鈥檚 paper, assesses the function and relevance of sociology in understanding the Philippine social realities. He investigates 鈥渢he ambivalence that characterized the disciplinal identity of sociology鈥攁n identity simultaneously forged by the literary and scientific traditions during the Industrial Revolution period.鈥
Campos said Erasga 鈥渞enarrates the Eurocentric history of sociology in order to show why I cannot be simply be uprooted from its original context and replanted in Philippine soil. He then offers suggestions, centered on the concept of pakikipagkapuwa, in ideologically repurposing and locally appropriating the discipline for it to be able to give appropriate accounts of Philippine society.鈥
Navarro鈥檚 paper re-reads the colonial discourses of international trade fairs from the 1870s to the 1930s held in Spain, France and the United States, 鈥渢hat attempt at speaking for the natives, images that were constituted to showcase the Filipino, and colonizer and colonized accounts that were testament to the said experience.鈥
Campos said, Navarro 鈥渟hows how the same discourses influenced the local version of such fairs, in the form of the Manila Carnival of 1908鈥 and argues that 鈥渢he fairs were meant to create impressions and images of an exotic native that would suit colonial purposes.鈥
Jularbal鈥檚 article gives a rhetorical analysis of Isabelo F. de los Reyes鈥檚 鈥淓l Tinguian鈥 (1888) which was considered as 鈥渢he most complete study of the Tinguian at that time.鈥 The author also tackles De los Reyes鈥檚 views and representations of the Cordilleran ethnolinguistic group of the Tinguian.
The editor notes that Jularbal 鈥渄etects an orientalist nativism in the writing of De Los Reyes鈥 and 鈥渁rgues that De Los Reyes鈥檚 study sets the Tinguian as an exoticized other of the national self, in the style of European travel writings, in order to gain legitimacy as an academic text.鈥
In Acu帽a鈥檚 paper, the author gives a creative and critical reading of the Adelina Gurrea鈥檚 鈥淟a Leyenda del Cama-cama,鈥 a framed story in 鈥淐uentos de Juana鈥 (1943) focusing on the story鈥檚 main characters and explores the idea of 鈥渘acion鈥 expressed in Gurrea鈥檚 cama-cama, a half-human and half-heron dwarf.
The editor notes that Acu帽a 鈥減roductively conceptualizes the cama-cama both as a figure produced during the precolonial period and a ghost that continues to haunt the neocolonial present, embodying both the anxiety and aggression involved in forging a national identity in the crucible of colonial conflict.鈥
In Flaviano鈥檚 paper, the author discusses the issue and problematizes the conflicted discourses on the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival from its birth in 2005 to 2014.
Campos said Flaviano, 鈥渄escribes the way Cinemalaya鈥檚 arrival revitalized cinema in the Philippines and have summoned a national public to be the ideal spectator of Filipino films. At the same time, however, she demonstrates how the transnational nature of cinema processes and the international recognition that legitimizes new Filipino films complicate the national cinema framing of Cinemalaya.鈥
The two book reviews featured in the journal are:聽 Joel David鈥檚 鈥淪eeds in the Garden of Letters: A Review of The End of National Cinema鈥 by Patrick F. Campos and Oscar Tantoco Serqui帽a Jr.鈥檚 鈥淐ritical of the 鈥楥ritical鈥: A Review of Kritikal na Espasyo ng Kulturang Popular鈥 edited by Rolando B. Tolentino and Gary C. Devilles.
Humanities 茄子视频app is UP 茄子视频app鈥檚 (UPD) official internationally-refereed journal in the Arts and Humanities.
The members of the editorial board are:聽 associate editors Dr. Leah Enkiwe-Abayao (UP Baguio), Dr. Ramon G. Guillermo (UPD), Dr. Carolyn S. Hau (Kyoto University), Dr. Scott Contreras-Koterbay (East Tennessee State University), Dr. Ruth Jordana L. Pison (UPD), Dr. Helen Yu Rivera (UPD), Dr. Matthew M. Santamaria (UPD) and Dr. Rolando B. Tolentino (UPD); managing editor Dr. Gonzalo A. Campoamor II, editorial assistant Epifania M. Domingo, layout artist Dercylis G. Mararac, and copy editors Arvin A. Mangohig and Eilene Antoinette G. Narvaez.
For the list of the members of the international advisory board, click聽.
To inquire about the journal鈥檚 printed version, contact the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development (OVCRD) at (02) 981-8500 local 4048 or (02) 436-8720.
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