Judas and his Phallus: The Carnivalesque Narratives of Holy Week in Catholic Philippines
Titel:
Judas and his Phallus: The Carnivalesque Narratives of Holy Week in Catholic Philippines
Auteur:
Cruz-Lucero, Rosario
Verschenen in:
History and anthropology
Paginering:
Jaargang 17 (2006) nr. 1 pagina's 39-56
Jaar:
2006-03
Inhoud:
On the eve of Easter Sunday, or what is called Black Saturday in Catholic Philippines, a secluded barrio in the Visayan province of Antique comes alive with a ritual involving an effigy of Judas and his phallus. As one of the country's main sources of Overseas Contract Workers, Antique is a specific illustration of the truism that third world countries like the Philippines consist concurrenty of premodern, modern, and postmodern societies. This paper examines the Judas ritual as a carnivalesque trope, in which folk and modern literature, colonial apparatuses, popular culture, and the agency of the subaltern intersect. I read the plaza, in which the Judas ritual is enacted, as the locus of struggles for power between the dominant and the oppressed. Finally, I read the narratology of Judas' phallus in adjunction with other texts across historical periods and insular boundaries so as to unmask the codes of ideological regulation.
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