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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Apostol, Gina, author.     Subjects     Philippines -- History -- Revolution, 1896-1898 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Apostol, Gina, author.       by title:      The revolution accor...         MARC Display

The revolution according to Raymundo Mata / Gina Apostol. by Apostol, Gina, author. New York, NY : Soho, 2021. Subjects Philippines -- History -- Revolution, 1896-1898 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781641291835 (hardcover) : 1641291834 (hardcover) : Description:  350 pages ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Raymundo Mata is a nightblind bookworm and a revolutionary in the Philippine war against Spain in 1896. Told in the form of a memoir, the novel traces Mata's childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, and his discovery of the books of the man who becomes the nation's great hero José Rizal (Rizal, in real life, is executed by the Spaniards for writing two great novels that spark revolution-the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. At the time Rizal died, he was working on a third novel, Makamisa). Raymundo Mata's autobiography, however, is de-centered by another story: that of the development of the book. In the foreword(s), afterword(s), and footnotes, we see the translator Mimi C. Magsalin (a pseudonym), the rabid nationalist editor Estrella Espejo, and the neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic Dr. Diwata Drake make multiple readings of the Mata manuscript. Inevitably, clashes between these readings occur throughout the novel, and in the end the reader is on a wild chase to answer enduring questions: Does the manuscript contain Makamisa or is it Makamisa? Are the journals an elaborate hoax? And who is the perpetrator of the textual crime? In this story about the love of books, the story of a nation emerges. But what is a nation? What The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata imagines is that through acts of reading, a nation is born"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hanapepe Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol Historical Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Apostol   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol Historical Fiction Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Fiction Apostol   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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