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Here Lies Love in Critical Contexts: A Public Syllabus

July 10, 2023

Week 5 | Burial and Resurrection: (New) Marcos Mythologies

 

Greenfield, Lauren. The Kingmaker. Showtime, 2019. 1 hr., 40 mins.

Abdelfatah, Rund, et al. “Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines.” Featuring Sheila Coronel, Vicente Rafael, and Talitha Espiritu. Produced by National Public Radio. Throughline. May 11, 2023. Podcast, 58 mins.

Martin, Jocelyn S. “R.I.P., Rest in Pieces: Mnemonic Transnationality, Travel, and Translation of the Marcos Burial in the Heroes’ Cemetery.” International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society 32, no. 4 (2019): 423–37.

Benedicto, Bobby. “The Place of the Dead, the Time of Dictatorship: Nostalgia, Sovereignty, and the Corpse of Ferdinand Marcos.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39, no. 4 (2021), 722–739.

Tatcho, Orville B. “Rhetoric and Memory: The Arrival, Display, and Burial of Ferdinand Marcos’s (Dead) Body.” Humanities Diliman 20, no. 1 (2023): 1–20.

Arguelles, Cleve V. “Duterte’s Other War: The Battle for EDSA People’s Power’s Memory.” In A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte’s Early Presidency, edited by Nicole Curato, 267-88. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017.

Heydarian, Richard Javad. “The Return of the Marcos Dynasty.” Journal of Democracy 33, no. 3 (2022): 62-76.

 

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