Marginal Voices, Silenced Annotations: Notes on the Life of Edith L. Tiempo

• Main Author: Pe, Cris Barbra N.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: Edith L. Tiempo; Biography; Nation; National Artist; Indigenous; Creative Writing; Pacific Islands Languages and Societies; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol3/iss1/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1047/viewcontent/2_Pe.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The popular version of National Artist for Literature Edith L. Tiempo is that she holds a central position as the literary matriarch of the Philippines. However, little is known about her background as a partly tribal (indigenous) woman. This paper proposes that biography can be a form of interventi...