(MAY 30)鈥�The Humanities Diliman January to June 2019 issue (HD Vol. 16 No. 1) featuring six articles and a book review is now available .

Prof. Patrick F. Campos, PhD, HD鈥檚 editor-in-chief, said the latest issue emphasized on the concept of paglulugar (place-ing) which has 鈥済rown in importance in various approaches to cultural, literary, performance and media studies since the 1980s and in certain fields have already reached moments of rupture and transformation.鈥�

He said 鈥淥ne may think of the articles contained in this issue of 鈥楬umanities Diliman鈥� as instances of the ongoing developments and contestations in spatial, postcolonial, cosmopolitan, regional and local scholarship.鈥�

The articles are 鈥淯rban Anxieties in Davao Horror Short Films鈥� by Katrina Ross A. Tan and Laurence Marvin S. Castillo; 鈥淢anning the World: Staging Filipino Migrant Masculinities in Katas ng Saudi鈥� by Oscar Tantoco Serqui帽a Jr.; 鈥淧anata, Pagtitipon, Pagdiriwang: A Preliminary Contextualization of Cultural Performances in the Philippines鈥� by Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco; 鈥淭he Leccio: Ethnicity and Indigeneity in the Ilokano鈥檚 Observance of Semana Santa鈥� by Roland Erwin P. Rabang; 鈥淎ng mga Ideolohiyang Politikal na Nakapaloob sa Rosales Saga ni F. Sionil Jose (The Political Ideologies within The Rosales Saga of F. Sionil Jose)鈥� by Joshua Mariz Felicilda and F.P.A. Demeterio III; and 鈥淏etween Consumerism and Anticolonialism: Detergent Advertisements in Iranian State Television鈥� by Azra Ghandeharion and Mahboobeh Rostami.

Tan and Castillo鈥檚 article focuses on short films from the growing film industry in Davao City in Mindanao. According to the authors, their essay examines how the horror films produced by the independent filmmakers function 鈥渁s imaginative mediations of urban anxieties in the region.鈥�

Campos noted that the essay 鈥渞eads meanings of place in selected films but also situates the contributions of these films in the production of a 鈥榬egional cinema鈥� that offers an alternative view of national cinema.鈥�

Serqui帽a鈥檚 article revisits and analyzes the 鈥渕elodramatic form鈥� of the 1987 play by the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) 鈥淜atas ng Saudi.鈥� This features four Filipino construction workers during the height of the oil-fueled construction industries in the Persian Gulf.

Campos said the paper argues that 鈥渓abor migration and the vicissitudes of diasporic living transform the meanings of masculinity and its vaunted relationship to nation-building.鈥�

Tiatco鈥檚 paper is about his field notes and personal experiences written while researching on performances in various parts of the country. Based on the author鈥檚 abstract, the article 鈥渞eflects on the concept of cultural performance in a preliminary attempt to historicize and to contextualize it using Philippine culture as a starting point.鈥�

Campos said the paper argues that 鈥減ublic performances are enacted as artistic expressions in small-group situations, but the motivations of the performers and participants are at bottom personal devotion.

Rabang鈥檚 article focuses on the leccio, 鈥渁 form of lamentation by Mary, the mother of Jesus based on the suffering and death by crucifixion of Jesus Christ.鈥�

Campos said the author closely compares the pasyon and the leccio and 鈥渟hows how groundedness in local tradition renders the expression and meaning of these two cultural-religious forms differently.鈥�

Meanwhile, Demetrio and Felicilda aims to describe the political ideas found in Jose鈥檚 well-known quintet novels, 鈥楾he Pretenders鈥�; 鈥楳y Brother My Executioner鈥�; 鈥楾ree鈥�; 鈥楳ass鈥� and 鈥楶oon鈥� and uses political categories inspired by the work of Hans Slomp, a German theorist.

In the last article, authors Ghandeharion and Rostami, as stated in their abstract, traces 532 detergent advertisements broadcast by Iranian State Television from 2011 to 2015 and how these 鈥渆xploit Western or Western-like names and words as a synthesis of Western influence and Iran鈥檚 anti-colonial discourse in post-revolutionary era (i.e. the Islamic Revolution of 1979).鈥�

Humanities Diliman Vol. 16 No. 1 also featured a Ma. Theresa Angelina Q. Tabada鈥檚 book review of the 鈥淒ays of Disquiet, Nights of Rage: The First Quarter Storm and Related Events鈥� by Jose F. Lacaba.

鈥淗umanities Diliman鈥� is UP Diliman鈥檚 (UPD) official internationally-refereed journal in the Arts and Humanities. It is an awardee of the Journal Challenge Grant through the Journal Incentive Program of the Commission on Higher Education. It is also a Scopus-indexed journal and is available via www.doaj.org and www.ebsco.com and has been listed in the ASEAN Citation Index at http://www.asean-cites.org/index.php?r=contents%2Findex&id=9.

For the list of the members of the editorial and international advisory board, click .

To inquire about the journal鈥檚 printed version, contact the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development (OVCRD) at (02) 981-8500 local 4048 or (02) 436-8720. 鈥擧aidee C. Pineda, image courtesy of OVCRD

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