necessary fictions: philippine literature and the nation
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Examination of the legitimacy of the "Hikayat Hang Tuah" as a national epic currently and in past Malay history.TRANSCRIPT
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aubrownsubverting the Western genre
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aubrownthe problem with vaguely defining its function as an epik
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aubrownesp. as a "national" epic
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aubrownbc there isn't really a unified Malay nation
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aubrownacknowledge many different forms, manifestations
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aubrowntoo nostalgic to inform current cultural unification/political integration
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aubrownoutmoded language, "boring", reserved for academia
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aubrownbut still a spark of common feeling, timeless unification
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aubrownnot an epic historically
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aubrown*role of rise of literacy
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aubrownexemplifies the [unifying] power of education/ written literature
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aubrownHikayat Hang Tuah's widespread influence/pwer dulled by fall of "bangswan" theater (the primary form of its transmission)
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aubrownnew media/ literature forms incorporate Hang Tuah symbol
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aubrownintellectuals abandon bc outmoded, impractical
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aubrownnationalism + independence: elites use Hang Tuah to perpetuate social hierarchy
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aubrownbecomes nationalist Malay identity epik
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aubrownmodern anti-feudal interpretation of epic
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aubrowna legacy of fragments persists
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