Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ418379
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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Nick Joaquin: A Portrait of the Existentialist as Filipino.
Zialcita, Fernanado
World Englishes, v9 n2 p215-23 Sum 1990
Nick Joaquin, a leading English-language writer in the Philippines, explores the cultural construction of self though fiction that centers on the lives of the Spanish-speaking elite. Joaquin seeks to interpret the self as a dynamic process, forever exploring, interrogating, and reaffirming itself against the background of Philippine culture. (25 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, English, Fiction, Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Self Concept, Social Class, Spanish Speaking
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Philippines
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