tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post4662637816364116494..comments2023-10-30T08:30:16.124-07:00Comments on Apon Ti Exilo: A Son's Letter and the Sensitivities of a Bruised NationArielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490852258073994961noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-71764970122511155572007-09-20T21:33:00.000-07:002007-09-20T21:33:00.000-07:00James:thanks, thanks. mahalo and aloha.James:<BR/>thanks, thanks. <BR/>mahalo and aloha.Arielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490852258073994961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-23761907292038085972007-09-17T19:54:00.000-07:002007-09-17T19:54:00.000-07:00Congratulations! Another Palanca.Just finished rea...Congratulations! Another Palanca.<BR/><BR/>Just finished reading Genoveva Edroza-Matute's autobiographical novel. It was a welcome surprise that it had listed down the winners of the Centennial Literary Awards.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422751277031144988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-7324779553689971422007-09-06T20:26:00.000-07:002007-09-06T20:26:00.000-07:00Kristian:Thanks, thanks. An Dios ay suripot sa gab...Kristian:<BR/>Thanks, thanks. An Dios ay suripot sa gabos. Iyo, iyo, ipakipaglaban ta an demokrasia asin hustisia sa ngaran nin sakuyang banwa.Arielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490852258073994961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-48834752864646726362007-09-06T19:23:00.000-07:002007-09-06T19:23:00.000-07:00here it is boronyog@yahoo.com. will get a copy of ...here it is boronyog@yahoo.com. will get a copy of your book also.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334185304420145254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-77776556329045183252007-09-06T13:11:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:11:00.000-07:00Kristian:Post you email ad and I will write to you...Kristian:<BR/>Post you email ad and I will write to you. In the meantime, you can read my novel in Filipino, the way I define this language, "Dangadang" (University of the Philippines Press, 2003). If this is not in the bookstore, it should be at the UP Press in Diliman.<BR/>Thanks for your books in advance.<BR/><BR/>I send you the anitos, the spirit of our peoples.Arielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490852258073994961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-11372113424243300272007-09-06T04:15:00.000-07:002007-09-06T04:15:00.000-07:00maraming salamat sa pahayag na ito. sadyang napaka...maraming salamat sa pahayag na ito. sadyang napakarami pang kailangang gawin. ano ang mailing address mo? papadalhan kita ng kopya ng dalawa kong aklat.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334185304420145254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-58142562157370604102007-09-05T21:23:00.000-07:002007-09-05T21:23:00.000-07:00Kristian:That holding of Bikol studies conference ...Kristian:<BR/>That holding of Bikol studies conference ought to be institutionalized so that it will see the light of day till kingdom come. <BR/><BR/>We have to have guarantees that all these initiatives, energies, and inspirations to fight for what is linguistically just and culturally democratic and fair in a diverse country like the Philippines are not going to waste.<BR/><BR/>We have to have assurances that what we are doing is NOT some kind of a knee-jerk reaction to what's happening at this time but a clear commitment to the pursuit of fairness. <BR/><BR/>We have to go beyond the here-and-now even if we begin, rightfully, from the here-and-now. We need to transcend, look at things in a broader. We are not going to allow our minds to be shackled by a `monolingual' discourse, a `monolingual' world, a `monolingual' epistemology mediated by the 'strange' Tagalog language. <BR/><BR/>The there-and-then has to be put before us, has to serve as our end, has to make us afire so that we can go on with zest and zeal, vim and vigor. <BR/><BR/>We are a nation among nations: a country made up of many ethnolinguistic groups, 'nations' in the truest sense of that word. <BR/><BR/>The recognition of this diversity must continually remind us of our responsibility to each other, today and forevermore. <BR/><BR/>The cue and clue is this: TO EACH OTHER.<BR/><BR/>Not one group, not this Manila-centered discourse on what a nation is made of, not what some academics would like to ram into our throats, not what some Tagalog-twisted zealots would make us believe. <BR/><BR/>For we are a nation, true; but we are nations as well. <BR/><BR/>For we are not Tagalog; but we are Filipinos. These two things--realities--are not equal, not equivalent, not isOmorphic, not the same. <BR/><BR/>The recognition of our cultural and linguistic rights are due us--these rights are our basic human rights, this we must remind ourselves, this we must remind other people including those who have systematically `othered' us.<BR/><BR/>We have to learn to say, after more than 70 years: Enough is enough. <BR/><BR/>I wish you well in your upcoming Bikol studies conference.Arielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490852258073994961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-53807544146865235292007-09-05T19:58:00.000-07:002007-09-05T19:58:00.000-07:00oo naniniwala ako sa ganung takbo na kailangan na ...oo naniniwala ako sa ganung takbo na kailangan na ngang masugpo. ang laking hamon nito. sa december, merong conference for bikol studies, masaya ko na kahit papano nagkakaroon ng ganitong pagkilos. balitaan mo ko sir kung nasa pilipinas ka, gagawa ako ng paraan para magkakilala tayo ng personal.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334185304420145254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-32469918881620442482007-09-04T22:32:00.000-07:002007-09-04T22:32:00.000-07:00Kristian:I have never been for the sundering of ou...Kristian:<BR/>I have never been for the sundering of our people. This divide et tempera tactic, in any front, ought to stop. I am for any language as well--knowing that language as Word is sacred and sanctified. The notion about 'against/versus/contra' is not `against' a people nor `against' a language but that bad politics behind a language that dominates and becomes an instrument of internal colonization of a country. What do you do when you have, by virtue of lopsided cultural and linguistic policies, an uneven development of the cultures and languages of a country that professes itself to be diverse, a.k.a. also known as multicultural? There we go.Arielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490852258073994961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-91433423386462842572007-09-04T21:00:00.000-07:002007-09-04T21:00:00.000-07:00sa akin naman, bentahe na yon na alam ko ang tagal...sa akin naman, bentahe na yon na alam ko ang tagalog at ang inggles, wala akong galit sa anumang wika. maaaring sa sistema pero pasasaan ba't meron na rin namang mga erehe at filibustero sa atin. kaya mas nakikita ko sa ngayon ang pangangailangan sa pagbuo ng regional networks among literary writers, sinimulan na namin ito sa south with hiligaynon writers. tutulak kami papuntang hilaga.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334185304420145254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-41541333099205656952007-09-04T15:52:00.000-07:002007-09-04T15:52:00.000-07:00Kristian:You said it. This systemic rendering of u...Kristian:<BR/>You said it. This systemic rendering of us as legit writers (why do we need to write in Tagalog and English to prove anything?) as second-class citizens of the Philippine writing community is a clear semiotics of seductions of linguistic and cultural empire. Small or big, the empire is within (more sinister) and without (the global mantra). <BR/>Be well. We are not going to allow Bikol to survive alone but to thrive. This is where our redemption begins.Arielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490852258073994961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-41276993519027063212007-09-04T00:43:00.000-07:002007-09-04T00:43:00.000-07:00wala ngang bikol category sa palanca. kaya nga sin...wala ngang bikol category sa palanca. kaya nga sinimulan na namin dito ang pagbibigay ng recognition sa aming mga manunulat. tama ka, nung isang taon sa palanca, defamiliarization din yung experince ko kahit na sa filipino fiction ako nanalo. parang naghahanap ako ng iba pa sa salitang katuturan. pinili kong makisama sa mga manunulat mula sa iloko, yun nga lamang natabihan kami ng isang ingleserong winner na parang siya lang ang may monopoliya ng dila.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334185304420145254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938829959041558170.post-23164948301846314712007-09-03T18:39:00.000-07:002007-09-03T18:39:00.000-07:00pa, you need not to.pa, you need not to.iehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05869035890353580656noreply@blogger.com