Language
English
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Gina Apostol creates multiple tensions reflecting the relationship between the United States and the Philippines and among different linguistic codes. Languages mix throughout the text, set in the Marcos Era Philippines, as symbols of fluidity and disorientation. Other characters’ frequent complex linguistic mix proves alienating for protagonist and narrator Soledad Soliman. Apostol renders Soledad as a young girl disoriented by her inability to competently use native Filipino languages because she spent most of her childhood in the United States and simultaneously traumatized by her role as the daughter of a member of former President Ferdinand Marcos’s inner circle.
DOI
10.55917/2154-2171.1081
Recommended Citation
Myers, Cecilia Nina
(2016)
"Confession, Hybridity, and Language in Gina Apostol’s Gun Dealers’ Daughter,"
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies: Vol. 7, Article 10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55917/2154-2171.1081
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/vol7/iss1/10
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