Cave and Shadows
 Book cover for Nick Joaquin's Cave and Shadows. | |
| Author | Nick Joaquin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
Publication date | 1983 |
| Publication place | Philippines |
Cave and Shadows is a 1983Catholicism.[8]
The bizarre events in this novel includes the inexplicable death of Nenita Coogan.naked inside a cave located within the suburban regions of Manila.[4] The death by Coogan triggered a criminal investigation, truth searching,[1] collision of the past and the present, and the unhinging of reality.[4] The end of the novel exposes human nature, belief, and certainty.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Cave And Shadows by Nick Joaquin Archived 2010-04-11 at the Wayback Machine, Contemporary Philippine Fiction, anvilpublishing.com
- ^ a b Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin (born in 1917), Book Summary, portal.unesco.org
- ^ Roces, Alejandro R. Regarding Nick Joaquin, Roses & Thorns, Opinion, The Philippine Star, philstar.com, November 10, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g Cave and Shadows (1983) by Nick Joaquin Archived 2010-03-12 at the Wayback Machine, from the Biography of Nick Joaquin, The 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, rmaf.org
- ^ Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin, britannica.com
- ^ Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin, britannica.com
- ^ Other important books by Joaquin include: (...) Cave and Shadows, 1983 (...) Archived 2008-06-14 at archive.today, nationalartists.panitikan.com
- ^ Garcia, J. Neil C. (...) Depicting the routinary paganisation by Filipinos of the Western religion called Catholicism is not anything new in Filipino fiction, and indeed novels like Nick Joaquin’s Cave and Shadows have in fact made it the conceptual center of their plots. (...), from The Postcolonial Perverse: Hybridity, Desire, and the Filipino Nation in Federico Licsi Espino, Jr.'s Lumpen, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 14, November 2006, intersections.anu.edu
- ^ San Juan, Epifanio Jr. Celebrating the Virgin and Her City: An Introduction to Nick Joaquin, philcsc.wordpress.com
- San Juan, Epifanio. Chapter 7: Cave and Shadows: Toward the Production of Utopian Discourse, Subversions of Desire: Prolegomena to Nick Joaquin, pages 169-189, books.google.com
External links
- Cave and Shadows Summary at valmar.wordpress.com
- Bookcover image for Nick Joaquin's Cave & Shadows at openlibrary.org