Biography

To Remember to Remember: Reflection on the Literary Memoirs of Filipino Women

By Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo

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This book picks up a story the author began telling in 1994 through autobiographical narratives of Filipino women in Filipino Woman Writing (Second Edition, UST Publishing House, 2015). Here, Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo turns to the first women writers to embrace the title of ?literary memoirist.? Four generations of women writers are represented in this unusual volume: Paz Policarpio-Mendez, Solita Camara-Besa, Gilda Cordero-Fernando, Merlie Alunan, Criselda Yabes, Jenny Ortuoste, and Rica Bolipata-Santos. Hidalgo shows how these writers have crafted stories from memories that continue to haunt them, using language whose shapeliness transforms them into compelling experiences for their readers.

Publisher: Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, a critic, and a literary scholar with more than 40 published books. As an academic, she pioneered the writing and teaching of Creative Nonfiction in the country. A Book of Dreams is her third novel, following Vida (Mr. & Ms., 1981) and Recuerdo (UP Press, 1996, 2020). She has received numerous literary awards, most recently the S.E.A. Write Award, an international honor granted by the Royal Family of Thailand. She has also received national lifetime achievement awards, including the Carlos Palanca Dangal ng Lahi Award, the Gawad Balagtas from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL), and the Parangal Hagbong from the UST Varsitarian, in addition to various Palanca and National Book Awards for individual works. Hidalgo has worked as a teacher, writer, and editor in Bangkok, Seoul, Yangon, New York City, and Manila. In her roles as an academic administrator, she has served the University of the Philippines as Vice President for Public Affairs of the UP System, Director of the UP Press, and Director of the UP Institute of Creative Writing; and the University of Santo Tomas as Director of the UST Publishing House. She is currently the Director of the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies and Professor Emeritus of UP Diliman.
Year: 2015
Category: Nonfiction - Hybrid
Language: English
Pages count: 200
Word count: 65206
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-773-7
Keywords: Biography, Women authors, History and criticism
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