FABC: "Insurrecto" by Gina Apostol by Filipina Authors Book Club https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto August 2022 - Feel free to use this space before/during/after our book club live meeting. Add your responses. Create your own posts (based on favorite quotes, book themes, additional topics, links, etc.). en-us 2022-08-03 20:24:39 UTC 2025-11-22 09:06:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1f5-1f1ed.png FABC 2022 Book Chat: Schedule/Guidelines filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254368884 2022-08-03 20:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254368884 FABC Member Introductions filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254370240 Plan on attending/participating? Pin a location (click below FABC Intros link) & share a quick bio!

FABC Intros]]> 2022-08-03 20:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254370240 Gina Apostol - A Novelist's Blog filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254370823 2022-08-03 20:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254370823 About - Gina Apostol filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254371251 Gina Apostol won the 2022 Rome Prize in Literature to write her next novel, on womanhood and radicalism in fin-de-siécle Europe. Her last book, Insurrecto, was named by Publishers' Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of 2018, selected as an Editor's Choice of the NYT, and shortlisted for the Dayton Prize. Gun Dealers' Daughter won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award. Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, now out in the US from Soho Press, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). Her newest book, La Tercera, will be out in May 2023. She has received fellowships from Civitella Ranieri and Emily Harvey Foundation, among other residencies. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City. ]]> 2022-08-03 20:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254371251 Gina Apostol - Work filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254373420 Gina Apostol's Essays/Excerpts, Forewords & Some Anthologies, and links to other work


]]> 2022-08-03 20:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254373420 Cornell Lecture filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254373853 2022-08-03 20:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254373853 Gina Apostol at the Asian American Writers' Workshop filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254375967 2022-08-03 20:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254375967 Instagram @ginaapostol212 filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254377111 2022-08-03 20:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254377111 About - Insurrecto filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254378206 Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter.

Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created “a howling wilderness” of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara’s film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator—one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher.

Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women—artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters—finding their way to their own truths and histories. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, the novel is startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful. Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch, and Nabokov’s Pale Fire. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, and in so doing, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of Philippine and American history. 

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40237027-insurrecto]]> 2022-08-03 20:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254378206 Discussion Question 1: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254383424 The novel has several female characters whose lives are in the process of "becoming"  - that is, their progress as women artists or wives or lovers or revolutionaries forms part of the novel's layered plot. Discuss a scene where a woman's dilemma is central to the plot of history or art, or storytelling, or other matters in the novel.

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-03 21:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254383424 Discussion Question 2: (as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto) filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254384057 Why do you think there is a road trip at the heart of the novel?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-03 21:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254384057 Discussion Question 3: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254384411 Locate a scene or line or detail of humor in the novel. How did you respond to humor in the novel? What is the role of humor in this book?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-03 21:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254384411 Discussion Question 4: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254385569 Texts are layered in the novel: two dueling scripts are framed by a mystery novel, which in turn is framed by the story of a forgotten history. History seems to be an overriding frame for this novel’s plot. What do you think is the novel’s idea of history? How do the layered texts and multiple plotlines relate to this idea? Why choose a layered structure to explore this concept of history?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-03 21:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254385569 Discussion Question 5: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254386374 Consider the figure of Casiana Nacionales. What do you think her role is in the novel? How does she relate to the otehr characters and their dilemmas in the book?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-03 21:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254386374 praxino.org filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254386722 https://www.praxino.org/]]> 2022-08-03 21:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254386722 Discussion Question 6: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254387677 The novel makes several remarks about reading. Find a few of them. The reader seems to have a role in the novel. What is your role as a reader of the novel? In what way does your experience of reading the novel relate to any of the ideas in it?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-03 21:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254387677 Insurrecto - Cover Artist - BenCab filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254390859 BenCab's Woman with Fan is the image on the cover of Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-03 21:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254390859 BenCab Museum filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254391183 https://www.bencabmuseum.org/]]> 2022-08-03 21:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254391183 Book Expo Talk on Insurrecto aka "How Do We Know the Things That Make Us?" Essay filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254392966 https://ginaapostol.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/book-expo-talk-on-insurrecto/]]> 2022-08-03 21:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254392966 FAST FACTS: Balangiga Massacre filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254397750 https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/212969-things-to-know-balangiga-massacre/]]> 2022-08-03 21:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254397750 U.S. Returns Bells Taken as War Booty From Philippines in 1901 filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254399772 2022-08-03 22:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2254399772 Discussion Question 7: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259832991 Find a chapter where you believe Magsalin is writing the script of the movie. What are the attributes of Magsalin in the novel that make you believe this? Do the same exercise for Chiara. In what ways does the book maintain ambiguity about author figures within it?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-12 13:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259832991 Discussion Question 8: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259834125 Find some objects or matters or lines that repeat. What is the role of repetition in the novel? What is the role of doubling? What are its uses or effects?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-12 13:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259834125 Discussion Question 9: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259834956 Consider optical technology in the novel: movies, stereo cards, photography, the human eye (the theme of stereopsis). How these relate to other ideas in the novel, e.g., history, colonization, resistance?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-12 13:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259834956 Discussion Question 10: filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259835330 There are a number of mentions of Elvis in the book. Why do you think he is included in this novel about colonization?

**as found in "Behind the Book" section in Insurrecto]]> 2022-08-12 13:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259835330 Where Was Apocalypse Now Filmed? filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259841214 2022-08-12 13:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259841214 How Apocalypse Now inspired Filipino surfers filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259844859 2022-08-12 13:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259844859 Two Novelists Revisit "Apocalypse Now" filipinaauthorsbookclub https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259845841 2022-08-12 13:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2259845841 Lone woman in historic Balangiga uprising gets recognition https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266158963 2022-08-20 14:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266158963 Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266231988 2022-08-20 18:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266231988 Surviving the menace of Balangiga: Two stories about community leadership https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266232716 2022-08-20 18:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266232716 Gina Apostol's May 2023 Book Release https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266549643 2022-08-21 14:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266549643 In Multiplicity Is Truth: An Interview with Gina Apostol https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266554700 2022-08-21 14:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266554700 Gina Apostol on her new book 'Insurrecto,' the Balangiga massacre, and American imperialism https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266560183 2022-08-21 14:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266560183 Lorina Mapa Interview with Gina Apostol (“Insurrecto”) at the Toronto Public Library https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266571448 2022-08-21 15:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266571448 An American And Her Filipina Translator Exhume A Massacre In 'Insurrecto' https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266573029 2022-08-21 15:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266573029 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: "A Tiny Upward Shove" Melissa Chadburn https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266580424 2022-08-21 15:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266580424 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: "A Carnivore's Inquiry" Sabina Murray https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266582175 2022-08-21 15:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266582175 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: "Rolling the R's" R. Zamora Linmark https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266585723 2022-08-21 16:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266585723 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: "Zero Gravity" Eric Gamalinda https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266587520 2022-08-21 16:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266587520 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: "Amigo Warfare" Eric Gamalinda https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266587810 2022-08-21 16:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266587810 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: "Planet Waves" Eric Gamalinda https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266588656 2022-08-21 16:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266588656 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: "Noli Me Tangere" & "El Filibusterismo" José Rizal https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266589509 2022-08-21 16:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266589509 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: Books by Jessica Hagedorn https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266590069 2022-08-21 16:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266590069 Filipina writer wins Rome prize in Literature https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266598367 2022-08-21 16:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266598367 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: Books by Lysley Tenorio https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266601275 2022-08-21 16:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266601275 Waray: Gina Apostol's Primal Language https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266604648 2022-08-21 17:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266604648 Gina Apostol mentions other Filipinos (and historical events) from Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266607523 2022-08-21 17:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266607523 CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Gina Apostol in conversation with Malaka Gharib https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266673320 2022-08-21 20:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266673320 At Home with Literati: Gina Apostol & Elaine Castillo https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266673406 2022-08-21 20:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266673406 Authors in Conversation: Gina Apostol and Grace Talusan https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266673488 2022-08-21 20:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266673488 Book Recommendation from Gina Apostol: "In the Country" Mia Alvar https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266691741 2022-08-21 21:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/filipinaauthorsbookclub/insurrecto/wish/2266691741