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Ambeth Ocampo Articles

Rizal without the Overcoat

A collection of essays and articles about Jose P. Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines.
The anthology is written and compiled by Ambeth Ocampo. The articles are collected from his column, Looking
Back, published bi-weekly in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Makamisa: The search for Rizals Third Novel
The novel revolves around the town of thirty-scene and began a mass given by Agaton Pastor of the people subject
to him. Among the main characters are Luke Capitan, Marcela, Lesbian Capitan, Don Segundo, Teniente and Aleng
Anday.
A Calendar of Rizaliana in the vault of the Philippine National Library
After completing the process of research and authentication that led to the publication of the drafts of Rizals hitherto
unpublished third novel Makamisa, Ambeth Ocampo surveyed his field notes and discovered that he had completed
an inventory of the precious and inaccessible Rizal manuscripts and materials in the vault of the Philippine National
Library. Arranged chronologically to become a bibliographical calendar, this book is not a mere listing, but includes
descriptive details, annotations, and even an abstract in English of most manuscripts.
Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures
This book is a compilation of the lectures and conference papers made by Ambeth Ocampo in his long career as the
most renowned historian about Rizal and the late 19th century Philippines. Here, Ocampo opines that teaching
history should not only be a recital of facts and forgettable dates but students should find profound meanings in
them. As such, he proposes the definition of history or kasaysayan In Filipino, Kasaysayan is rooted in two
words salaysay which means narrative or story and saysay or meaning.
Rizals Teeth, Bonifacios Bones: Looking Back 5
150 years since Jose Rizals birth, half a century since the nation celebrated his birth centennial in a grand way in
1961 (and his death centennial in 1996) one would think that we would know all that we should know about Rizal by
now. The many papers delivered at different conferences here and abroad, however, prove that this is not so and
that there will always be new perspectives on Rizal for a long time. Unlike other scholars I offer nothing new except a
call to return to the primary sources yet again to ask new questions of something old or ask old questions to get new
answers.

What I like most of all the articles that I chose is the fourth article in this paper which is Meaning and History:
The Rizal Lectures, what I like about it is that it speak the truth about the students attitude towards the
Rizals novels that they are requires to read, they just simply read and understand thats it, but in fact they
should find profound meanings in them. Because it is our task to seek stories or narratives and meaning in
our history rather than mere factual matters because if we find meaning in history, then we can gain the
power to change our lives.