...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...

... Motherless Tongues: 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 by Nick Joaquin (2017). His most recent book is The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte (forthcoming 2021). Ronit Ricci is the Sternberg- Tamir Chair in Comparative Cultures and associate professor of Asian studies and comparative religion at the Hebrew...

... maneuvers among different reference points, with disorienting, while also very material, effects. Blending newspaper articles and fiction in discussing the famous Filipino writer Nick Joaquin, Vicente Rafael s piece further troubles the conventions of the comparative method and defies the sense of...