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Revaluation 1997: Essays on Philippine Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture

Revaluation 1997: Essays on Philippine Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture

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Long out of print, Revaluation is a compilation of Bienvenido Lumbera’s critical essays on Philippine literature, cinema, and popular culture between 1962 and 1984. The 1997 edition adds 22 new articles and an interview to the original 13 essays of the 1984 edition, all of them hallmarks of Lumbera’s consistent nationalist and democratic outlook. The result is an impressive survey of Philippine culture as reinterpreted—and revaluated—by an important critic and teacher who has exercised a strong influence on the directions Philippine cultural scholarship has been taking for nearly three decades now.

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Length N/A Pages
Language Eng
Imprint University of Santo Tomas Publishing House
Released 1997
Identifier (ISBN) 2075107
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Bienvenido L. Lumbera is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Bienvenido L. Lumbera can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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