In 1901, Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison in
Balangiga, on the island of Samar, and American soldiers created
‘a howling wilderness’ of the surrounding countryside in
retaliation, murdering thousands of the inhabitants of Balangiga.
In the 1970s, the American filmmaker Ludo Brasi went missing in
Samar while shooting a movie, The Unintended, inspired by these
events. In 2018, his daughter Chiara and the Filipino translator
Magsalin go on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines. Chiara is
working on a film about the Balangiga massacre, when Magsalin reads
Chiara’s film script and writes her own version of the story.
Within the spiralling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are
stories of women – artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters
– finding their way to their own truths and histories. By pushing
up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity
in Balangiga, Gina Apostol shows us the dark heart of an untold and
forgotten war.
General
| Imprint: |
Fitzcarraldo Editions
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 2019 |
| First published: |
2018 |
| Authors: |
Gina Apostol
|
| Dimensions: |
197 x 125 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-913097-03-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-913097-03-X |
| Barcode: |
9781913097035 |
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