Insurrecto - Gina Apostol
Category: History
Tags: History, Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults
Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Dutertes 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 Chiaras film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator - one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher., Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvinos If on a Winters Night a Traveler, Julio Cortazars Hopscotch, and Nabokovs Pale Fire. But at its heart this is a novel of emotional power that grapples with our endless ability to erase the past. Apostol pushes up agains
