AUTHOR ORIENTED - HISTORICISM

Daryll Delgado

Daryll Delgado Rosario Cruz-Lucero

 An author from from Ateneo de Naga University Press.

 She has a BA in Journalism and MA in Comparative Literature from UP
Diliman.
 She has been a lecturer at the University of the Philippines, the Ateneo de
Manila University, and Miriam College. She currently works for the
Southeast Asia office of an international labor and human rights NGO
 She works for an international NGO, and writes global reports on labour and
human rights issues.
 Her book, After the Body Displaces Water (USTPH, 2012), won the 32nd
Philippine National Book Award/Manila Critics Circle award for best book
of short fiction in English, and was a finalist in the 2013 Madrigal-Gonzales
First Book Award. She has received a Philippines Free Press award for her
fiction in 2010.

TEXT ORIENTED- FEMINISM

 The women were seen as typical housewives in the literature. Delgado

showed Nenita is as housewife in the story: how she “was at home,
picking leaves for a medicinal brew” and “she had to prepare breakfast
and brew a special concoction for her grandson” .
 Nenita in particular was quite forgiving given the fact that “She took him
back every time his affairs with women turned sour” and “She just took
her husband back. Nursed him back to health again” .
 Male superiority was not deliberately implied in the story as it was only
in Nenita’s point of view.
---The work was written by Daryll Delgado where she focused on
Nenita’s point of view, it shows what goes on in the mind of a woman
who happened to have undergone the same struggles that Nenita had.
READER ORIENTED- PSYCHOANALYTIC

 In the story Nenita mentioned the purple leaves that the herbalista gave her,
it is described as “the one that would make his balls shrink, give him
hallucinations, make his blood boil until his veins popped” and noticing the
type of death that her husband experienced, it can be a symbol for Nenita’s
way of ending her suffering.
 The hallucinations are also a symbol of her wishing to have a better life than
the one she has now, seeing and getting to hug Willie Revilliame and also
dancing with the beautiful dark man that became her husband.