Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War
Autor M. Evelina Galangen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2017
During World War II more than one thousand Filipinas were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lolas’ House tells the stories of sixteen surviving Filipino “comfort women.”
M. Evelina Galang enters into the lives of the women at Lolas’ House, a community center in metro Manila. She accompanies them to the sites of their abduction and protests with them at the gates of the Japanese embassy. Each woman gives her testimony, and even though the women relive their horror at each telling, they offer their stories so that no woman anywhere should suffer wartime rape and torture.
Lolas’ House is a book of testimony, but it is also a book of witness, of survival, and of the female body. Intensely personal and globally political, it is the legacy of Lolas’ House to the world.
M. Evelina Galang enters into the lives of the women at Lolas’ House, a community center in metro Manila. She accompanies them to the sites of their abduction and protests with them at the gates of the Japanese embassy. Each woman gives her testimony, and even though the women relive their horror at each telling, they offer their stories so that no woman anywhere should suffer wartime rape and torture.
Lolas’ House is a book of testimony, but it is also a book of witness, of survival, and of the female body. Intensely personal and globally political, it is the legacy of Lolas’ House to the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810135864
ISBN-10: 0810135868
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 40 black and white images, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Curbstone Books 2
ISBN-10: 0810135868
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 40 black and white images, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Curbstone Books 2
Notă biografică
M. EVELINA GALANG has been researching and documenting the lives of surviving Filipino “comfort women” since 1999. She is the author of several books and the editor of Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images. Galang directs the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami and is core faculty and board member of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA).
Cuprins
Welcome to the Lolas’ House, 9
Through the Mercy of God, 23
Catalina Lorenzo, 25
Virginia Villarma, 41
Lucia Alvarez, 46
Pilar Frias, 67
“Turtle! Turtle!” 80
Benita Aliganza, 83
Cristita Alcober, 96
Narcisa Adriatico Claveria, 122
Violeta Lanzarote, 142
They Used Us, 149
Prescila Bartonico, 151
Dolores Molina, 164
Piedad Nicasio Nobleza, 180
Josefa Lopez Villamar, 189
Japanese Leftovers, 221
Atanacia Cortez, 214
Urduja Francisco Samonte, 235
Carmencita Cosio Ramel, 253
Remedios Felias, 260
Justice by Knife, 267
Filipino “Comfort Women” of World War II, 281
Monday’s Luminous Mysteries, An Afterword, 300
Acknowledgements, 305
Through the Mercy of God, 23
Catalina Lorenzo, 25
Virginia Villarma, 41
Lucia Alvarez, 46
Pilar Frias, 67
“Turtle! Turtle!” 80
Benita Aliganza, 83
Cristita Alcober, 96
Narcisa Adriatico Claveria, 122
Violeta Lanzarote, 142
They Used Us, 149
Prescila Bartonico, 151
Dolores Molina, 164
Piedad Nicasio Nobleza, 180
Josefa Lopez Villamar, 189
Japanese Leftovers, 221
Atanacia Cortez, 214
Urduja Francisco Samonte, 235
Carmencita Cosio Ramel, 253
Remedios Felias, 260
Justice by Knife, 267
Filipino “Comfort Women” of World War II, 281
Monday’s Luminous Mysteries, An Afterword, 300
Acknowledgements, 305
Descriere
Lolas’ House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino “comfort women.” During World War II more than 1,000 Filipino women and girls were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. They were taken from their homes, snatched from roadsides, and chased down in fields. Overall the Japanese forced 400,000 women across Asia into sexual slavery. M. Evelina Galang began researching these stories in the 1990s as 173 lolas, “grannies” in Tagalog, emerged after decades of shame and silence to demand recognition and justice from the Japanese government.