Insurrecto, a novel, Gina Apostol
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Insurrecto, a novel, Gina Apostol
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Insurrecto
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Responsibility statement
Gina Apostol
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created "a howling wilderness" of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara's film script and writes her own version. Through these two rival scripts-- one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher-- find their way to their own truths and histories. -- adapted from publisher info
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