Though I’m not able to go hoard books at an actual and physical Manila International Book Fair
Though I’m not able to go hoard books at an actual and physical Manila International Book Fair (MIBF), I’m glad that I get to have the opportunity to know more Filipino writers and books that try to recover and reimagine the Filipino history and culture through webinars like this.Charlie’s book, Children of the Postcolony, is a collection of essays about the Filipino intellectuals “whohave contributed to the foundation of the cultural archive of decolonization“ namely Edith L. Tiempo, Fernando Zobel, Bienvenido L. Lumbera, E. San Juan, Jr, and Jose Maria Sison that raise a few concerns about the Filipino decolonization:How would Filipinos be able to break free from the corruption of the American interference?How was the interference affected the forgetting of the early history of the postcolony?How do we go about the process of reconstruction when contamination is inevitable?Is Filipinization a Filipino idea or an American one- is it a corrupted idea or a revolutionary idea?Charlie said that the book wasn’t meant to criticize the past, but to provoke the scholars and students to “reconstruct those lost years in Filipino memory.”Hoping to attend more webinars of this kind. There are two more events for the month of November which you can attend:You can check out Ateneo Free Press’ official Facebook page for more information.You can check out this Youtube replay of the webinar. -- source link
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