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The politics and poetics of Philippine festival in Ninotchka Rosca's State of War.
"Both the social function and the symbolic meaning of the festival are closely related to a series of overt values that the community recognizes as essential to its ideology and worldview, to its social identity, its historical continuity, and to its physical survival, which is ultimately what festival celebrates."
--Alessandro Falassi (1)
Festivals serve to regenerate and unify a community; they recount a neverending story that, like all narrative, is both the product and producer of culture. But the festival tells a potentially subversive tale that fosters communal solidarity and purpose, rekindling vital energies that can form the basis of collective ...
- Jose Maria Sison: At Home in the World-Portrait of a Revolutionary...
- Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch Carson, Michael J. July 1, 2007 700+ words
...World--Portrait of a Revolutionary Conversations with Ninotchka Rosca Open Hand Publishing, LLC PO Box 20207, Greensboro, NC...Internationally acclaimed Filipino journalist and novelist Ninotchka Rosca presents Jose Maria Sison: Portrait of a Revolutionary...
- Postcolonial Visions and Immigrant Longings: Ninotchka Rosca's Versions of the...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Davis, Rocio G. January 1, 1999 700+ words
ROCIO G. DAVIS Ninotchka Rosca, one of the major players in the saga of Filipina American writers, may have been the model for Elleke Boehmer's description...
- "Writes" of Passage: Women Writers Symposium.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: off our backs leithauser, marcia June 1, 2000 700+ words
...author, USA), Elizabeth Sproat (editor, New Moon), Ninotchka Rosca (author, Philippines), and Fariba Hachtroudi (author...she declared, is for the people, not-for oneself. Ninotchka Rosca, author of Bitter Country and Monsoon Collection, informed...
- PENTIMIENTO: The edifice complex
- Newspaper article from: Filipino Express, The Ninotchka Rosca November 12, 1995 700+ words
Ninotchka Rosca Filipino Express, The 11-12-1995 PENTIMIENTO: The edifice complex. Years have been spent trying to raise the money for it...
- PENTIMIENTO: The only true equalizer
- Newspaper article from: Filipino Express, The Ninotchka Rosca October 15, 1995 700+ words
Ninotchka Rosca Filipino Express, The 10-15-1995 PENTIMIENTO: The only true equalizer. Even if the man was acquitted, there was a guilty...
- PENTIMIENTO: General Paradox
- Newspaper article from: Filipino Express, The Ninotchka Rosca October 29, 1995 700+ words
Ninotchka Rosca Filipino Express, The 10-29-1995 PENTIMIENTO: General paradox. Often it seems that General Fidel V. Ramos is trying to...
- BOOKMAKING
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Robert Taylor, Globe Staff April 23, 1989 700+ words
...6 p.m., Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway. FRIDAY -- Filipino journalist, short-story writer and novelist Ninotchka Rosca presents a reading at MIT Room 6-120 at 7:30 p.m. She was imprisoned during the Ferdinand Marcos regime, and her...
- Flippin': Filipinos on America.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Palomar, Al Camus June 22, 1997 700+ words
...as well." The old reliables - viz., Bienvenido Santos, N. V. M. Gonzales, F. Sionil Jose, Linda Ty-Casper, Ninotchka Rosca, and Jessica Hagedorn - write hugely entertaining stories without sacrificing their literary integrity. The others, of...