Narrative Rupture as History, or the Search for the "Missing text" in Miguel Syjuco's Ilustrada and Gina Apostol's The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata

• Main Author: Roma, Dinah T.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Jose Rizal; historiographic metafiction; narrative; Philippine colonial history; rupture
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss39/20; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1999/viewcontent/KK_2039_2C_202022_2019_20Forum_20Kritika_20in_20Honor_20of_20Edel_20E._20Garcellano_20__20Roma.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The search for the “missing text” is the central trope in Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado (2008) and Gina Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata (2009). In Ilustrado, the search for The Bridges Ablaze, the missing manuscript of the dead migrant Filipino writer Crispin Salvador propels the nov...