The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
By Gina Apostol
2009
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Edward Said wrote that the role of the intellectual is to present altenative 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.-Eric Gamalinda
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Gina Apostol
Author · 7 books
Gina Apostol was born in Manila and lives in New York. Her first novel, Bibliolepsy, won the 1998 Philippine National Book Award for Fiction. She just completed her third novel, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, a comic historical novel-in-footnotes about the Philippine war for independence against Spain and America in 1896.
