Reading and Writing the Region

Resil B. Mojares University of San Carlos, Cebu City

Abstract

This paper brings to light the rise of academic interest in the local, the popular, and the regional. At the interface between the local and the national, the fragmented and politicized concepts of nationhood are apparently no longer tenable. The centrality of the regional and the qualitative leap of local studies in the field of literature are affirmed in this text. Placing value on local resources and cultures, Dr. Mojares widens contexts of intellectual and academic pursuits. Given this mindset, not only literature but also other disciplines can move toward viewing more spheres of regional knowledge.

Author Biography

Resil B. Mojares, University of San Carlos, Cebu City

Dr. Resil B. Mojares is Professor Emeritus at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, where he was founding director of the Cebuano Studies Center (1975-2000). He served as Visiting Professor in universities in the United States, Japan, Singapore, and the Philippines, and has authored, co-authored, or edited more than twenty-five books and published numerous articles in books and journals in the Philippines and abroad. Among his books are Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel (1983), House of Memory (1997), Waiting for Mariang Makiling (2002), Brains of the Nation (2006), Isabelo's Archive (2013), and Interrogations in Philippine Cultural History (2017). For his writings and scholarship on diverse aspects of Philippine culture and history, he has been awarded national and international honors. In 2018, he was conferred the title of National Artist in Literature.

Published

2021-09-09

Issue

Vol 3 (2020): LIRIP Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Section

Articles