Dogeaters (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jessica Hagedorn
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: 1956-1961
- Setting: Manila, the Philippines
- Principal Characters: Rio Gonzaga, Joey Sands, General Nicasio Ledesma, Senator Domingo Avila, Daisy Consuelo Avila, Romeo (Orlando) Rosales, Pepe Carreon
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Postcolonial literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, Class conflict, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Prostitution or prostitutes, Rape, Asia or Asians, Violence, Adultery, Assassination, Corruption, Cruelty, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare, Nightclubs, Torture, Asian Americans, Civil wars, Philippines or Filipinos
- Locales: Manila, Philippines
Form and Content
Dogeaters has quite distinct main parts. “Part One: Coconut Palace” is episodic, a series of individual scenes with unstated though deducible thematic linkages. It features an imposingly large cast of characters, both major and minor, who are largely both one-dimensional and static. Though the characters have numerous nuances of foil relationships to one another, they are all predominantly function characters; often they merely make cameo appearances. The plotlessness of the story and the lack of multifacetedness in the characters enhances...
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