Abstract
This chapter focuses on the creation of anglophone Filipino modernism as a “queer” literary practice in José Garcia Villa's work. The literary practices through which he became “the inventor of modernist writing in English in the Philippines” are elaborated not only through formal innovation but also through an equally experimental logic of love that de-privileges heterosexual coupling, procreative sexuality, and normative masculinity. The chapter examines several texts from Villa's oeuvre, “Man-Songs,” the autobiographical stories in Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933), and the poem “3” in Volume Two (1949), all of which provide a complex account of the interplay among aesthetic theory, queer erotics, and formal innovation in Villa's work. The chapter ends with a consideration of Villa's roles as critic and anthologist of Philippine literature in English.
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