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The Woman Who Had Two Navels : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Woman Who Had Two Navels
''The Woman Who Had Two Navels'' is a 1961 historical novel by Nick Joaquin, a National Artist for Literature and leading English-language writer from the Philippines.〔 It is considered a classic in Philippine literature.〔(The Woman Who Had Two Navels (Filipino Literary Classics ), amazon.com〕 It was the recipient of the first Harry Stonehill award. It tells the story of a Filipino elite woman who is hallucinating, and is preoccupied with the notion that she has two navels or belly buttons in order to be treated as an extraordinary person.〔 ==Thematic description==
This novel by Joaquin is a literary assessment of the influence of the past to the time encompassing events in the Philippines after World War II,〔 an examination of an assortment of legacy and heritage〔(The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) ), britannica.com〕 and the questions of how can an individual exercise free will and how to deal with the “shock” after experiencing “epiphanic recognition”.〔San Juan, Epifanio. (Chapter VI, Dialectics of Transcendence: An Interpretation of Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels ), Toward a People's Literature: Essays in the Dialectics of Praxis and Contradiction in Philippine Writing, pages 146-165〕
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