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A Hunger for History: A Study of Ma-Yi Theater Group's "Project: Balangiga"

During the open forum held after each performance of the play Project: Balangiga by Theater Company (New York City, August 2002), several young Filipino Americans profusely thanked the company for talking about the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). (1) These Filipino Americans, most of whom were college students, did not know much about the war, nor did they have an extensive knowledge of the history of colonization in the Philippines. Current studies in Filipino American history focus mainly on issues of migration, assimilation, and integration, rather than on the Philippines' colonial history. Thus, though they knew of the struggle of migrant farm workers, they were not aware of the struggle of the Filipinos in the Philippines against American imperialism. Project: Balangiga, written by Ralph Pena and Sung Rno, satisfies their hunger for history, and, at the same time, interrogates Philippine-American relations. Using a documentary-style format, the play features actors of various ethnicities (Asian Americans and Caucasian) playing themselves as they narrate their investigation of the events surrounding the Balangiga massacre (2) and the succeeding controversy over the seizure of the Balangiga church bells. (3) Interwoven in the play are the actors' discussions on the processes of research and staging. This article discusses both the workshop production staged by in August 2002 and Pena's and Rno's revised draft for a future full production of the play. Although the actors playing actors in the play talk about objectivity, the play discards the myth of benevolent assimilation propagated by President McKinley in 1898 and implies a history of deceit and violence in America's occupation of the Philippines. Staged in New York, symbol of imperialist triumph, site of grief after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and home to many Filipino Americans, the play urges its Filipino American audience to confront possible contradictions in their appreciation of their ethnic/diasporic situation by understanding the colonial history of the homeland of their parents and grandparents. Furthermore, the play positions artists and writers as historians and activists who use theater both as a venue for discussion and as a weapon of protest. Their involvement in the play links them with theater artists and writers who participated in anti-colonial discourses in the Philippines, and American artists and writers who have continuously been involved in peace struggles. Theater Company, Its Audience, and Negotiation of Identity The Theater Company was established in 1989 by a group of former University of the Philippines (UP) students who were also members of the theater group UP Tropang Bodabil (later known as Peryante). (4) The name Ma-Yi comes from the ancient Chinese word for the islands now known as the Philippines. In its website and souvenir programs, the company explains that its mission statement includes the commitment to representing the Asian American experience and engaging communities in dialogue to take Asian American aesthetics beyond stereotypical markers. The company started by producing Filipino works first staged in the Philippines, but has since expanded its season's offerings to include new works by Asian American writers. Among the plays it has produced are: Chris Millado's peregriNasyon (1993 and 1997) on the parallel experiences of peasants and the Philippines and migrant farm workers in the United States in the 1930s; Ralph Pena's Flipzoids (1998) on Filipino American identity politics; and Sung Rno's Drizzle and Other Stories (2000), based on Korean short stories. Why stage Project: Balangiga? There was, of course, the current controversy about the Balangiga bells, appropriated as war booty during the Philippine-American War. For the people of Cheyenne, Wyoming, where two of the bells are displayed, they are a symbol of the grief of the American people for the soldiers who lost their lives during the massacre in the town of Balangiga, Samar, in the central Philippines. …

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Autobiography and the Hunger for History: An Interview with Jacques Le Goff

Born in 1924, Jacques Le Goff is Professor of Historical Anthropology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and has been codirector of the journal Annales: Economie. Société. Civilisation, since 1969. He was director of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes from 1975 to 1977. Le Goff's many books include Marchands et banquiers au moyen ǎge (1957). La Civilisation de l'Occident médiéval (1965), La Naissance du purgatoire (1981), Pour un autre moyen ǎge (1978), L'Imaginaire médiéval (1985), and Histoire et mémoire (1986). His most recent book, a 900-page volume entitled Saint Louis (Gallimard, 1996), is perhaps the most exhaustive, most scientific study ever written on the life of Louis IX of France. The following interview took place May 10, 1995 in Jacques Le Goff's home in Paris. The English translation of the interview, which was conducted entirely in French, is by Paul Archambault and has been approved by Le Goff.

: Hunger in History: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation . Lucile F. Newman.

: Hunger in History: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation . Lucile F. Newman.

Hunger and Public Action. Jean Drèze , Amartya SenHunger in History: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation. Lucile F. Newman

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviews. Jean Drèze , Amartya Sen Hunger and Public Action. Jean Drèze , Amartya Sen Hunger in History: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation. Lucile F. Newman G. K. HelleinerG. K. Helleiner Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 41, Number 4Jul., 1993 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/452053 Views: 3Total views on this site Copyright 1993 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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Rybakov's Deti Arbata: Reintegrating Stalin into Soviet History

The Soviet reappraisal of Stalin that began in 1986 was initially manifest only in the cultural sphere, although more recently it has spread to other domains. Anatolii Rybakov's novel Deti Arbata played a decisive role in preparing the way for a reassessment of Stalin's legacy. Its publication was immediately recognized as “an event of enormous significance,” reflecting the hunger for history and the wish to dethrone Stalin. In fact, the novel became the symbol of glasnost. It is the first novel to portray Stalin as a major character, to draw his psychological and historical portrait, and to demythologize his image. Furthermore, it does so for the first time without khitroglasie. Portraying the first generation of Soviet citizens, the children of the Arbat, it introduces the theme of exile into Soviet literature and sketches the social relations and the social psychology of the people in 1934.

Hunger in history: food shortage, poverty, and deprivation

Hunger in history: food shortage, poverty, and deprivation

The ‘Much Finer Complexity’ of History in The American

A great deal of criticism has celebrated Henry James's historical imagination or his lack of it; very little criticism has explored with any precision the sophisticated grasp of history that James exhibits in his novels and the various uses to which he puts his sense of history. Henry James himself had a passion for history and he sought it everywhere. Early in his writing career, in his biography of Hawthorne, James pointed out that ‘it takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature’. Much later in his career, in The American Scene, James described his own ‘Hunger for History’ explaining that ‘history is never, in any rich sense, the immediate crudity of “what happens”, but the much finer complexity of what we read into it and think of in connection with it ’. In its underlying form The American is not the kind of novel to compel one to reflect upon the ethos of a civilization or the social history of a culture, certainly not in the ways that Balzac's La Comédie Humaine or Tolstoy's War and Peace does. Nor is it the kind of novel that calls our attention to large historical trends. Yet to grasp the full stringencies of the story one should possess a strong historical awareness; for this novel provides an interesting example of how well James understood the historical implications of his subject.