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...Vicente L. Rafael Nick Joaquin (1917–2004) is often regarded as the greatest Filipino writer in English, yet he remains largely unknown outside his country. He published widely in all genres and was awarded the National Artist Award, yet he dropped out of high school and spent much of his youth...

...: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation. He has also edited Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures (1995); Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philip- pines, and Colonial Vietnam (1999); and Nick Joaquin s The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic (2017...

... Amid Wars of Transla- Contributors 227 tion (2016); all published by Duke University Press. He has also edited Discrepant Histories (1995); Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam (1999); and The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic by Nick...

... Filipino writer Nick Joaquin, Vicente Rafael s piece further troubles the conventions of the comparative method and defies the sense of continuous time and space to shake off any false sense readers could ever hold about the existence of a pure or untouched state. Introducing a Tagalog Philippine world...