The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata - Softcover

Gina Apostol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9712722414 ISBN 13: 9789712722417

Publisher: Anvil, 2009

Synopsis

Edward Said wrote that the role of the intellectural is to present alternative narratives on history other than those provided by the "combatants" who claim entitlement to official memory and national identity--who propagate "heroic anthems sung in order to sweep all before them." In this fearlessly intellectual novel, Gina Apostol takes on the keepers of official memory and creates a new, atonal anthem that defies single ownership and, in fact, can only be performed by the many--by multiple voices in multiple readings Raymundo Mata, appropriately blind, exists in a parallel universe where perception is always in question, and memory and the Filipino identity are turned inside out. Apostol plumbs the depths of one man's psyche and shows us our collective consciousness, a mirrors, on might say, so Borgesian that it endlessly multiplies--and redefines--our self image. We may never look at ourselves and our history the same way again. -Eric Gamalinda, author of Empire of Memory and My Sad Republic

About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9712722414
• ISBN 13: 9789712722417
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293