(This is an excerpt of a lecture titled “Jose Rizal and the Invention of a National Literature” delivered by the author in the recent PEN conference, which he dedicated to F. Sionil Jose. “Among the ...

My cousin, Rose Filart Scott, descendant of his sister Olympia, and I sat together waiting for our turn at a program in honor of Rizal’s birthday. “What happened to the letter we wrote for Secretary ...

As the country commemorated the 115th death anniversary of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal last Friday, Filipinos in other parts of the world also paid tribute to him. At the United States Library of ...

Part of his Farewell reads: 'I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land' During his time, Jose Rizal was considered a subversive. A pariah who deserved nothing but death. He advocated ...