Balik-Tanaw : the Road Taken / Soledad S. Reyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reyes, Soledad S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, Filipino--Biography.

Women authors, Filipino.

Authors, Filipino--Biography.

Authors, Filipino.

Women editors--Philippines--Biography.

Women editors.

Reyes, Soledad S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Balik-Tanaw: The Road Taken is the memoir of the distinguished Filipino critic, Soledad S. Reyes. This book is a record of Reyess journey of more than seven decades where personal narrative intertwines with people and events, with social and political movements with which the country sought to negotiate the treacherous shoals in the postwar years. The account carries a fair amount of biographical data (as lodged in the critics memory in the absence of diaries), from her childhood into her college years. But as the context becomes wider and more complex, the narrative takes on a more analytical frame as she tries to make sense of disparate experiences whirling about her in the tumult of the 1970s and beyond, and in the startling changes in the political landscape, local and global, that now grip the Filipino nation. This account, according to the author, is a story of an individual constructing a narrative that seeks to impose order upon chaos by retrieving aspects of the past and weaving a series of recalcitrant experiences into a coherent whole. Published in association with De La Salle University Publishing House

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Innocence: Through a Glass Darkly

2 A Petrified World, 1966-72

3 Expanding the World, Confronting More Challenges, 1973-1981

4 Theory and Practice in Literature and Popular Culture

5 On Women and the Female Voice

6 The Interconnectedness of Things and the Burden of History

7 Translation, 2010-2021

8 Looking Back

Endnotes

A List of the Author's Books

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781837643196

1837643199

OCLC:

1374426250