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July 1, 2012

[SSJ: 7550] book launching and forum on Philippine - Japan relations

From: Benja SJ
Date: 2012/07/01

Dear Friends,

We would like to cordially invite you to attend a book launching of "Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years" by Susan and Nathan Gilbert Quimpo on July 7, Saturday at Meiji University. This book launching will also include an open forum on the book and Japanese-Philippine relations during the Marcos era.

Please see the information below for details.

Sincerely,
Benjamin San Jose
Graduate Student, University of Tsukuba

Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years By Susan F. Quimpo and Nathan Gilbert Quimpo

Date and time: July 7 (Sat.) 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: Miyagi Hall, Liberty Tower, 23rd fioor, Meiji University
1-1, Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(Nearest JR/metro station: Ochanomizu) http://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/about/campus/index.h
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Language: English
Attendance is free.


Facilitator: Prof. Midori Kawashima, Sophia University

Program:
- Introduction from co-author: Prof. Nathan Gilbert Quimpo, University of Tsukuba
- Commentary: Prof. Kiichi Fujiwara, University of Tokyo
- Commentary: Prof. Ambeth R. Ocampo, Ateneo de Manila University
- Book signing session

Like other accounts of the martial law period in the Philippines, Subversive Lives provides documentation, research, and disclosures about the underground movement against the Marcos dictatorship.
And like the others, it was primarily written as a tribute to that era's martyrs and heroes. But what sets Subversive Lives apart from previously published memoirs is that it is written by a family. Seven out of ten siblings were separately drawn into the "national-democratic" revolution. Of middle class origins, the Quimpo siblings responded to the militant calls for democracy and social justice. As they defied the structures that propped up the dictatorship, they too unknowingly were destroying their own familial and friendship ties in the name of revolution.

That Subversive Lives is a non-fiction narrative written by nine authors is a feat in itself.
The book is not an anthology, rather, the individual stories, each rich and distinctive in their tone, were weaved together in a coherent account that spans the 1960s to the early 1990s. From the family's modest beginnings in provincial towns and cities, to the turbulent streets of Manila's protest rallies, to Marcos' torture chambers and prisons, to the hills and guerrilla zones of Bicol and Nueva Ecija, to the welgang bayan (people's strikes) in Mindanao, and finally, to the Filipino community of political exiles in Western Europe - this book is a page-turner. The final chapter tells the reader each sibling's view, in hindsight, of his or her participation in the revolution.

Some reviews of Subversive Lives:

http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/48105/a-heroic-generation
-still-cries-%E2%80%98never-again%E2%80%99
http://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/4680-revolutionar
y-reading
http://opinion.inquirer.net/27419/a-family%E2%80%99s%E2
%80%94and-nation%E2%80%99s%E2%80%94story
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/38269/why-young-filipi
nos-should-read-subversive-lives
http://opinion.inquirer.net/31169/%E2%80%98subversive-l
ives%E2%80%99-a-family%E2%80%99s-story
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=820561

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