LIMUHAG
The essay is an attempt to analyze the exchanges of the voices in Eddie Huang 2013 memoir. It recognizes the existence of three voices: street kid, Asian man, and the cook, which serves as Huang’s personal voices as he goes through an adventure that explores his identity as an Asian-American.
This paper is an attempt to analyze the 2016 work of South African comedian, Trevor Noah. It explores the different themes in the work such as: the apartheid, poverty, family, education, and even racisim and how the form is married to the content itself.
Based on Baquiran Jr.’s anthology, Aishite imasu: Mga Dagling Sanaysay sa Danas-Japan, this paper explores the significance of the writer’s voice that ranges from 1) personal to philosophical realizations, 2) comparison between his homeland and Japan, and 3) the flourishing of his lyrical prose from his admiration of nature. The discussion mainly focuses on chosen essays that clearly represent the aforementioned voices. As the paper progresses, it reveals Baquiran Jr.’s maturity as a writer and as a person, which is the focal point of the anthology.
by: Angelo Allito
The paper examines two major thematic and structural elements (The Journey and Character Growth) that shape the authorial voice and imprint present in Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Letters to A Young Poet’, one of the most well-known and influential works in epistolary nonfiction. By close reading into these elements of the ten-letter collection and by discussing the implications of the personal nature of epistolary writing, the paper allows the reader to see how Rilke’s voice and presence are achieved and utilized in the text.
by: Charis Agustin
This paper attempts to understand and analyze Maggie Nelson’s work entitled The Red Parts which was first published back in the year 2017. Its focus is on how the author’s voice thrives throughout the memoir, given the fact that the story is not personally about her, but instead, is about the death of her aunt, Jane Mixer, whom she never saw and never met.
Exploring the many ways Lola Olufemi presents her voice, convictions, and confidence in her thought-provoking book Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power, this essay centers around how Olufemi maneuvers between the personal and universal as she tells the glaring truth of our current world. As Olufemi maintains to break the gendered and raced patriarchal system, this essay analyzes the elements, both of the book’s structure and content, and how these are entwined to create Olufemi’s authorial presence that is felt throughout the pedagogical work.
by: Melded Montes
This paper examines how Nick Joaquin uses his voice to provoke and alter his audience's preconceived notions about Filipino identity. Thus, it focuses on the author's use of poetic devices, profound arguments, and conversational and sardonic tone, and how those give prominence to his intention.
This paper looks into Maria Rosa’s journey to growth and owning her truth in her memoir, Comfort Woman: A Filipina’s Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military, published in 1999. The paper examines how the growth of the writer allows us to look over the theme of keeping secrets in the memoir and how the writer is able to break away from her fate as the narrative progresses.
The term paper is the final individual project that is required for the students to pass the course. The requirement is based on the research problem that has been established in past reading materials given in the course (i.e. Nicole Wallack’s “On Reading Essays”) which students are erroneously taught to reduce the work to a single ‘point’. Thus, the students under this course were required to select a nonfiction book and analyze how the work is read, incorporating all of the things that they have learned through this class. In which, they must analyze how the writer’s presence was established in the text.
In Search for Answers: Reading Joel Pablo Salud’s “I, Journalist, and Other Newsroom Introspections”
by: Dexter Tendido
Joel Pablo Salud’s essay collection firmly revolves around plain and compelling storytelling. The I here is the centerpiece as there are no other characters or any mentioned external point of view in the story excluding himself. The collection forms a unique bond between the essays as it can be read as reportage or as a memoir. To see the clear distinction between these two elements, this paper will close read some of the critical parts in the collection to flesh out the assertive voice of the author and how does it affect readers or intend to react to it. The search for the truth will also be fleshed out to make implications out of it.
This paper attempts to analyze Jia Tolentino’s timely essay collection “Trick Mirror: Reflections of Self-delusion”. It explore the different topics Tolentino tries to reflect from: Contemporary Feminism, Religion, and the Internet, and how her voice helps her essay in exposing the scam behind these topics.
TERM PAPER
The term paper is the final individual project that is required for the students to pass the course. The requirement is based on the research problem that has been established in past reading materials given in the course (with emphasis on Nicole Wallack’s “On Reading Essays”) which students are erroneously taught to reduce the work to a single ‘point.’ Thus, the students under this course were required to select a nonfiction book and analyze how the work is read, incorporating all of the things that they have learned through this class. In which, they must analyze how the writer’s presence was established in the text.
by: Rasmia Ruiz
This paper is an attempt to provide a response, metacommentary and assessment through Kerima Polotan's collection of personal essays. It evaluates on Polotan's writing style through the snapshots of her life.
The analysis in this essay tries to flesh out the recurring patterns of intimacy, sexuality, and autonomy of one’s own body in exploring Ria Valdez’s narrative. Written on six parts, “My Body Remembers” is a very personal coming-of-age essay.
by: Jovi Mae Potian
This paper is an attempt to explain, elaborate, and analyze the authorial presence while exploring the complexities of the author’s complicated relationship with his parents, especially his rowned father, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his journey through the gradual loss of his father’s memory, his death, and what comes after.
The term paper is the final individual project that is required for the students to pass the course. The requirement is based on the research problem that has been established in past reading materials given in the course (i.e. Nicole Wallack’s “On Reading Essays”) which students are erroneously taught to reduce the work to a single ‘point’. Thus, the students under this course were required to select a nonfiction book and analyze how the work is read, incorporating all of the things that they have learned through this class. In which, they must analyze how the writer’s presence was established in the text.
This paper tries to analyze the authorial presence of James McBride in his memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother. This memoir deals with the topics of race, ethnicity, religion, family, and ultimately, the unshakable love of a mother that deals with her own wounds from her past and present and her son who wants to find himself. A poignant coming of age story, this memoir is richly detailed and deeply moving, and brilliantly weaves the two voices of a mother and a son in their pursuit of healing and self.