Resil B. Mojares
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Born | Resil Buagas Mojares (1943-09-04) September 4, 1943 (age 80) Polanco, Zamboanga, Commonwealth of the Philippines |
Occupation | Historian, literary critic |
Nationality | Filipino |
Alma mater | University of San Carlos (BA, MA) University of the Philippines Diliman (Ph.D.) |
Notable awards | ![]() Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story |
Spouse | Salvacion Ouano Go |
Children | 4 |
Resil Buagas Mojares (born September 4, 1943) is a Filipino historian and critic of Philippine literature best known as for his books on Philippine history. He is acclaimed by various writers and critics as the Visayan Titan of Letters, due to his immense contribution to Visayan literature.[1] He was recognized in 2018 as a National Artist of the Philippines for Literature - a conferment which represents the Philippine state's highest recognition for artists.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
Mojares was born to parents who were public school teachers on September 4, 1943, in Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte.[5]
Mojares has a bachelor's degree in English, a master's degree in Literature and postgraduate studies all at the University of San Carlos, as well as a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Career
He was one of the first Cebuanos to become a political prisoner during Martial Law, arrested on September 23, 1972, the day Marcos announced that he had placed the Philippines under Martial law.[6][7]
A retired Professor at the University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu City, he was a founding director (1975–96) of USC's Cebuano Studies Center, a pioneering local studies center in the Philippines.
Mojares has authored books on Philippine history, literature, and politics, including studies on three eminent Filipino intellectuals (Pedro Paterno, T. H. Pardo de Tavera, and Isabelo de los Reyes).
He has been a recipient of six Philippine National Book Awards. His books include The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu Province; Aboitiz: Family & Firm in the Philippines; House of Memory: Essays; and Vicente Sotto, The Maverick Senator (Cebuano Studies Center, 1992).
Mojares has been a visiting professor at Kyoto University, the National University of Singapore, and the University of California at Los Angeles where he lectures on "The Philippine Novel" and "Topics in Philippine Cultural History".
Mojares is writing the history of Cebu Province for the Cebu Town History Project.
In 2019, Mojares was recognized as one of the Top 100 Cebuano personalities by The Freeman, Cebu's longest-running newspaper. He was recognized alongside Tomas Osmeña, Max Surban, and Rubilen Amit as part of the centennial anniversary of the local newspaper.[8]
Personal life
Mojares is married to Salvacion Ouano Go, and has four children together: Kim Carmel, Mark Soren, Ressa Gail, and Anna Leigh. He resides in Barangay Talamban in Cebu City.[5]
Notable works
- Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel: A Generic Study of the Novel Until 1940 (Quezon City, UP Press, 1983; second ed. 1998)[2]
- The Man Who Would Be President: Serging Osmeña and Philippine Politics (Cebu: Maria Cacao, 1986)
- Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on Philippine Cultural History (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2002)
- Theater in Society, Society in Theater: Social History of a Cebuano Village, 1840-1940 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1985)
- The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu, 1899-1906 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1999)
- House of Memory: Essays (Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1997)
- Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes and the Production of Modern Knowledge (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006)
- Isabelo’s Archive (Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2013).
See also
References
- ^ Lantin, Alo (October 25, 2018). "The Visayan titan of letters, newly minted National Artist Resil Mojares". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
- ^ a b "Order of National Artists: Resil B. Mojares". National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
- ^ Chua, Paolo (October 23, 2018). "Here Are the Shortlisted Names For the 2018 Philippine National Artist Award". Town and Country Philippines. Archived from the original on October 23, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ Zulueta, Lito B. (October 24, 2018). "7 new national artists to be proclaimed Wednesday". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
- ^ a b Lato-Ruffolo, Cris Evert (November 4, 2018). "Mojares: National artist makes Cebuanos proud". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
- ^ Barcenas, Democrito (October 4, 2014). "Cebu's first martial law detainees". Retrieved October 15, 2021.
- ^ Mongaya, Karlo Mikhail I. (2019). "Militant Struggles and Anti-Imperialism in Resil Mojares's The Freeman Columns during the Early 1970s". Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. 67 (3–4): 557–594. doi:10.1353/phs.2019.0026. ISSN 2244-1638. S2CID 213742855.
- ^ "Top 100 Cebuano Personalities - Resil B. Mojares". The Freeman. May 12, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
External links
- Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- The Haunting of the Filipino Writer by Resil Mojares
- UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
- USC Awards Emeritus Title to Resil Mojares
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