Research Catalog

Title

Isabelo's archive / Resil B. Mojares.

Author

Mojares, Resil B.

Publication

• Mandaluyong City, Philippines : Anvil Publishing, [2013]
• c2013

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Details

Description

332 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Mixed collection of essays, vignettes, extracts and notes on Philippine history and culture.

Subject

• Reyes y Florentino, Isabelo de los, 1864-1938
• Filipinos > Folklore
• Knowledge management > Philippines
• National characteristics, Philippine
• Filipinos
• Philippines > Intellectual life
• Philippines > Social life and customs
• Philippines > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• Folklore
• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page [272]-332).

Language (note)

• In English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Isabelo's archive -- The haze of history -- Maidens shrouded in darkness -- A woman named Virgin Mary -- Men with tails -- A history of shame -- Remembering the body -- Densities of time -- Dragon and leech -- A poem of all the names of the rivers -- National geographics -- The verses of Bartolome Saguinsin -- The aritmetica of Rufino Baltazar -- The book that did not exist -- Unicorns in the garden of reason -- Isabelo's almanac -- History of the world in seventeen lines -- Blumenbach's model -- claiming "Malayness" -- Tales of Manilamen -- The traveling Filipino -- The itineraries of Mariano Ponce -- Atlas versified -- Ilocanizing verdi -- Notes for the production of a Brechtian Komedya -- Musica moralia -- Jose Rizal and the invention of a national literature -- The mysteries of Gabriel Beato Francisco -- Canonizing Balagtas -- The making of a national pantheon -- Beheading heads, changing heads -- The dangerous beauty of the headhunter -- Broken branches.

ISBN

• 9789712728037
• 971272803X

LCCN

^^2012325844

OCLC

841208234

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library