VOLUME 96 NUMBER 2
The November 2023 issue (Volume 96 No. 2) of Unitas covers the following topics: the embodiment of ambivalence of both rehabilitation and retributive punishment in the neocolonial City Jail, showing the versatile resistance of women prisoners in Lualhatii Bautista's novel, "Bulaklak sa City Jail" by E. San Juan Jr.; a review of Yang Ke's book, 'Lu Xun, the Canon, and Cultural Capital in China from 1920s to 2017" (2021) by Maria Socorro Q. Perez that unmasks the process which the canon is formed in the Middle and High School Curriculum in China, specifically in the works of Lu Xun, the Father of Modern Chinese literature; a review of a textbook of modern Indonesian literature by Honeylet L. Alerta, "Modern Indonesian Poetry and Short Stories for Pre-College and Non-Indonesian Readers" by a scholar of Southeast Asian Literatures in English, Ied Veda Sitepu; and a monograph in Filipino by U Z. Eliserio that discusses a variety of Philippine cultural artifacts, interrogating several concepts within a Utopian framework.
UST’s UNITAS Journal, which celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2022, is the oldest existing academic multidisciplinary journal in the Philippines published by a modern university.
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