ANNOUNCEMENTS• Please fill out CAPES!• Office hours Th 2-3 @ CCC• Presentation Mon: Ann,

Zhi, Erin, Tristan• Final (revised) reading

posted on website

DOGEATERS

WOMEN AND P

O L I TI C

A L POWER

DOGEATER

• Term of power and representation• Filipinos as “dogeaters”•Assumptions of primitivism, racialized inferiority

• Some Filipinos as “dogeaters”•Class/ethnic division and colonial mentality the miseducation of the Filipino

• What does it mean to be a “dogeater”? How is Hagedorn challenging the term, exposing the difficulty of defining Filipinos?

THE GIRL WHO HAD TWO NAVELS

• Rio Gonzaga defined by love of Hollywood movies and “corny” Tagalog radio dramas

• Family as symbolic of Philippine history• Taken to America by her mother• Connected to the Philippines by

Pucha’s letters• “I never worry about my father… My

father is a cautious man, and refers to himself as a ‘guest’ in his own country” (7)

• Her uncles “’Adaptibility is the simple secret of survival’” (8-9)

• Lola Narcissa from southern province, marries Whitman Logan but is linked to indigenous culture

• Rio as product & observer of Marcos-era Manila

MAJOR THEMES & MOTIFS

• Imposition of order vs chaos of multiplicity•Madame & President vs multiple characters/viewpoints

• Popular culture films, movies, television, radio•High versus low culture; cultural imperialism

• Hybridity cultural, linguistic, ethnic•Multiple forms of mestizaje• Tagalog vs Spanish vs English vs Taglish

• Beauty and the role of women in society•Daisy vs Madame President vs Baby

“SLEEPING BEAUTY”

• Why is it ironic that Daisy Avila becomes a beauty queen (101)?

• Why is Daisy plagued by tears? (106)? And why does she finally stop crying (108-109)?• 105 – gendered dichotomy of

emotion• Beauty pageants – women as

aesthetic object the culmination of La Vidal’s ideology of beauty

• To challenge gender subordination is to challenge political subordination (109)

• Sleeping beauty versus waking to consciousness

THE IRON BUTTERFLY

• What is the significance of Madame President’s dream (121)? How does the dream depict Madame’s character?• Crossing an ocean Tony’s

method of keeping afloat• What is the white plantation

house in the middle of the Pacific?• “throne of bananas” (124)• Madame’s delusions versus

Daisy’s consciousness