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SATIRE IN THE NOVELS OF MERLINDA BOBIS - SHERIL...

This study aimed to identify the aesthetics of satire in the novels of Merlinda Bobis. It
unveiled how the author literari- ly criticizes society in the three novels  Banana Heart
Summer  The Solemn Lantern Maker and Fish-Hair Woman using the five satirical techniques and
devices of satire  exaggeration  incongruity  parody  reversal and defamiliarization.
Specifically  it sought to have described the novels theme  language  tone  structure  milieu
and local color  characters representation and signification. The socio-political and cultural
aspects are traced using food  star and hair as primary tropes. Likewise  the reality frame
from the depicted societal problems in the novels is presented. The paper is a
descriptive-qualitative type of literary criticism. Applied in the treatment of material was
the formalist-contextualist theory. The study found that there are five particular types of
Filipino Bicolano satire as revealed from the use of the five techniques and devices of the
satire as cited above. They are culture-based  and anchored from people  the locales history 
and experiences. Bobis novels aim to call for a change and positivity amidst the cultural idi-
ocies of the Filipinos  particularly Bicolanos.

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