Righting in the Novel Form: Memories of the State of Exception and Non-juridical Rights in Ruth Firmeza's Gera

• Main Author: Bagulaya, José Duke
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: constitutional law; Filipino novel; Human rights and literature in Southeast Asia; martial law; state of exception; righting
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss39/30; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2009/viewcontent/KK_2039_2C_202022_2029_20Monograph_20__20Bagulaya.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This monograph1 explores the relationship between human rights and literature through a reading of Ruth Firmeza’s novel Gera [War], which depicts the early years of the world’s longest non-international armed conflict: the communist insurgency in the Philippines. The monograph reads Gera as a litera...