Vibora! A Novel by F. Sionil Jose HISTORY - Local History

Vibora! A Novel by F. Sionil Jose HISTORY - Local HistoryF. Sionil Jose's accidental hero, Benjamin Singkol, was imprisoned by the Japanese in Ft. Santiago after he had escaped from the front in Bataan in WWII. In the last days of that war, he served in the American Army as a medic in the Cordillera. It was also there where the 1896 revolutionary general, Artemio Ricarte, lived his last days with the Japanese. Publisher : Solidaridad Publishing House (January 1, 2007) Language : English Paperback : 118

writing in English

He was educated at Ateneo de Manila University

It offers an intelligent account of the complex and often ambivalent relationship between art and popular culture

'Revolution from the Heart'

four unforgettable characters – a wealthy

disputes between landowner and tenant flared into violence

and a jaded actor – find themselves irrevocably drawn together in this lavish

A noteworthy fact is that he was an American

Filipino nationalists

The Poet Imagines His Grandfather's Thoughts On The Day

legal discourse as theoretical texts to be examined for the normative claims about race

That two-part signification invites us to read Achichúk as lyric geography