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Cave and Shadows is a 1983 whodunit and Martial Law era “metaphysical” thrillerRoces, Alejandro R. Regarding Nick Joaquin, Roses & Thorns, Opinion, The Philippine Star, philstar.com, November 10, 2009 novel written by Philippine National Artist Read More..

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Description	Cave and Shadows is a 1983 whodunit and Martial Law era “metaphysical” thrillerRoces, Alejandro R. Regarding Nick Joaquin, Roses & Thorns, Opinion, The Philippine Star, philstar.com, November 10, 2009 novel written by Philippine National Artist Nick Joaquin. The setting of the novel is during Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law in the Philippines, Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin, britannica.com Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin, britannica.com including the time in Manila when activism was alive and demonstrations were frequent before August 1972 (described as Joaquin’s “‘objective correlative’ to the Crisis of ’72”), before the declaration of martial rule. It is a detective fiction that also deals with and arcane and historical cults involving beatas or “beatified women” (a group of religious lay women who were "repressed by a male-dominated, colonial order") and strange events occurring inside unfamiliar caves in the Metro Manila area. Other themes include politics, love, family, friendship, reconciliation, and tyranny. Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin (born in 1917), Book Summary, portal.unesco.org One of two novels authored by Joaquin during his lifetime Cave and Shadows (1983) by Nick Joaquin, from the Biography of Nick Joaquin, The 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, rmaf.org (written twenty-two years after Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels), it is regarded as an important book Other important books by Joaquin include: (...) Cave and Shadows, 1983 (...), nationalartists.panitikan.com to read for Philippine literature students. In this work, Joaquin interspersed historical facts and with fiction resulting to a mesh of “multi-layered meanings”. One of the main concept for the plot is the “routinary paganisation” by Filipinos of the Western-rooted religion known as Catholicism.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.eduThe bizarre events in this novel includes the inexplicable death of Nenita Coogan.San Juan, Epifanio Jr. Celebrating the Virgin and Her City: An Introduction to Nick Joaquin, philcsc.wordpress.com Coogan’s body was found naked inside a cave located within the suburban regions of Manila. The death by Coogan triggered a criminal investigation, truth searching, collision of the past and the present, and the unhinging of reality. The end of the novel exposes human nature, belief, and certainty. Cave And Shadows by Nick Joaquin, Contemporary Philippine Fiction, anvilpublishing.com
Description	Cave and Shadows is a 1983 whodunit and Martial Law era “metaphysical” thrillerRoces, Alejandro R. Regarding Nick Joaquin, Roses & Thorns, Opinion, The Philippine Star, philstar.com, November 10, 2009 novel written by Philippine National Artist Nick Joaquin. The setting of the novel is during Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law in the Philippines, Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin, britannica.com Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin, britannica.com including the time in Manila when activism was alive and demonstrations were frequent before August 1972 (described as Joaquin’s “‘objective correlative’ to the Crisis of ’72”), before the declaration of martial rule. It is a detective fiction that also deals with and arcane and historical cults involving beatas or “beatified women” (a group of religious lay women who were "repressed by a male-dominated, colonial order") and strange events occurring inside unfamiliar caves in the Metro Manila area. Other themes include politics, love, family, friendship, reconciliation, and tyranny. Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin (born in 1917), Book Summary, portal.unesco.org One of two novels authored by Joaquin during his lifetime Cave and Shadows (1983) by Nick Joaquin, from the Biography of Nick Joaquin, The 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, rmaf.org (written twenty-two years after Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels), it is regarded as an important book Other important books by Joaquin include: (...) Cave and Shadows, 1983 (...), nationalartists.panitikan.com to read for Philippine literature students. In this work, Joaquin interspersed historical facts and with fiction resulting to a mesh of “multi-layered meanings”. One of the main concept for the plot is the “routinary paganisation” by Filipinos of the Western-rooted religion known as Catholicism.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.eduThe bizarre events in this novel includes the inexplicable death of Nenita Coogan.San Juan, Epifanio Jr. Celebrating the Virgin and Her City: An Introduction to Nick Joaquin, philcsc.wordpress.com Coogan’s body was found naked inside a cave located within the suburban regions of Manila. The death by Coogan triggered a criminal investigation, truth searching, collision of the past and the present, and the unhinging of reality. The end of the novel exposes human nature, belief, and certainty. Cave And Shadows by Nick Joaquin, Contemporary Philippine Fiction, anvilpublishing.com

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Language	English
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Country	Philippines
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