Writing the Self and Exigencies of Survival: Autobiography as Catharsis and Commemoration

Thisarticle discusses the autobiographies written by survivors of Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law regime. Despite incarceration, torture, and the control of writing materials that sought to obliterate the self and the written word, political prisoners undertook great risks to record their lives.inter...

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Main Author: Concepcion, Mary Grace
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol66/iss3/3
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-43052024-08-07T03:42:03Z Writing the Self and Exigencies of Survival: Autobiography as Catharsis and Commemoration Concepcion, Mary Grace Thisarticle discusses the autobiographies written by survivors of Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law regime. Despite incarceration, torture, and the control of writing materials that sought to obliterate the self and the written word, political prisoners undertook great risks to record their lives.interviews with these writers reveal the challenges that, years later, survivors faced in writing their experiences, resulting in the belatedness of autobiographical writing. But in writing and publishing their narratives these activists and political prisoners-turned-writers felt emotional catharsis and empowerment. The passing of their generation has made these survivors realize the acute need to preserve memories of martial law.KEYWORDS: MARCOS DICTATORSHIP • PRISON WRITING • AUTOBIOGRAPHY •MARTIAL LAW • HISTORICAL MEMORY • TRAUMA 2018-09-28T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol66/iss3/3 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4305/viewcontent/6473.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Thisarticle discusses the autobiographies written by survivors of Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law regime. Despite incarceration, torture, and the control of writing materials that sought to obliterate the self and the written word, political prisoners undertook great risks to record their lives.interviews with these writers reveal the challenges that, years later, survivors faced in writing their experiences, resulting in the belatedness of autobiographical writing. But in writing and publishing their narratives these activists and political prisoners-turned-writers felt emotional catharsis and empowerment. The passing of their generation has made these survivors realize the acute need to preserve memories of martial law.KEYWORDS: MARCOS DICTATORSHIP • PRISON WRITING • AUTOBIOGRAPHY •MARTIAL LAW • HISTORICAL MEMORY • TRAUMA
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title_short Writing the Self and Exigencies of Survival: Autobiography as Catharsis and Commemoration
title_full Writing the Self and Exigencies of Survival: Autobiography as Catharsis and Commemoration
title_fullStr Writing the Self and Exigencies of Survival: Autobiography as Catharsis and Commemoration
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title_sort writing the self and exigencies of survival: autobiography as catharsis and commemoration
publisher Archīum Ateneo
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