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No.1 Dec 2015  \nHer-story as History: Counter-Memory to Philippine Marcosian History in Arlene J. Chai’s Eating Fire and Drinking Water  \nby Aimee C. Faunillan  \n“If a country’s history is its biography, its literature is its autobiography.”  \n- Linda Ty-Casper  \nAmong all the literary genres, the novel is considered to be the genre that best represents the nation. Like the novel, the concept of the ‘nation’ is an “imaginary construct” that relies “on an apparatus of cultural fictions”. Far from being a corporeal entity and encompassing more than geographical boundaries, the nation can only be imagined and constructed, making it no different to the imaginative construct of fiction. The novel is less structured and more accommodating of divergent perspectives compared to the short story, which is typically more focused on achieving unity. It is in this manner, therefore, that the structure of the novel parallels the imagined construction “of the nation, a clearly bordered jumble of language and styles”(Brennan in Bird 3).  \nThe tradition of drawing material from history is not a new and distinctive enterprise among contemporary Filipino fictionists in the post-independence literary setting. In the Philippines, history has often served as a significant material for fiction writers, especially novelists. This is evident from the works of Rizal to the literary productions of many contemporary Filipino novelists. The post-independence period in the Philippines did not deter Filipino fictionists from producing a convergence of the historical and the fictional in their literary works. Primary among the reasons for this is the paradoxical situation the Filipino had found himself in after his liberation from colonial rule: independence served mainly to highlight the oppression and colonialism that had remained prevalent even after foreign domination (Hau 101).  \nIn one of her essays in A Gentle Subversion: Essays on Philippine Fiction in English (1998), Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo asserts that many of the novels produced by contemporary Filipino novelists are of the historical type. However, she clarifies that to say historical novel is not to say that the narrative is simply set in a specific historical time and place. In many, if not all, of these novels, history serves as the “texture” of the narrative and not just its mere backdrop (Daroy in Hidalgo 118). The essay includes brief discussions on twelve contemporary Filipino novels in English and how these novels represent various phases in the nation’s tumultuous history. The assertion of Hidalgo is that these novels have political entities as characters and most of their conflicts are in many ways connected with political circumstances. In this sense, the protagonist ceases to be one of the human characters in these novels; in many instances, in the narrative, the“protagonist is the nation itself”(Hidalgo 118).  \nCrucial to supporting Hidalgo’s contention about the intervening role of history in these novels is her discussion of “discourse” by Michel Foucault and the “historiographic operation” by Michel de Certeau. Since discourse allowed for the representation of certain ideologies as more dominant than others in the same way that the historiographic operation revealed the possible manipulation and inherent subjectivity of a historical report, history is rarely able to present facts that are irrefutable and truly objective. This problematization of historical knowledge accounts for the reason why many historical novels by Filipino writers are not just historical novels; many are historiographic metafictions, wherein the novelist and historian write in tandem with others---and with each other”(Hutcheon in Hidalgo 120).  \nThis act of writing in tandem allows the historiographic metafictionist to accommodate a plurality of perspectives, without having the burden of privileging any of those perspectives. Given that history shares its nature as discourse wi","cbCainXoXd75vh0D","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainXoXd75vh0D","pdf",283149,"English","# Her-story as History: Counter-Memory to Philippine Marcosian History in Arlene J. Chai’s Eating Fire and Drinking Water\n## Nation and the novel as cultural fictions\n## Historical discourse and historiographic metafiction\n## Counter-memory and re-reading official history\n## Self-reflexivity, interpretation, and the writer’s responsibility","[{\"question\":\"Why does the text compare the novel’s structure to the imagined construction of the nation?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that both rely on cultural fictions and accommodating divergent perspectives rather than a single unified account of reality. This makes the nation comparable to the imaginative workings of fiction.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the document explain the role of history in contemporary Filipino historical novels?\",\"answer\":\"It states that history functions as the narrative “texture,” not just a backdrop, and that political entities can operate as characters. 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