Comradeship, remolding and rectification in Norman Wilwayco's Gerilya

Laurence Marvin S. Castillo

doi:http://doi.org/10.13185/KK2024.004301

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In this article, I examine the representation of the long-running Maoist national democratic (NatDem) revolution in Norman Wilwayco's award-winning novel Gerilya. Largely unflattering in its depiction of revolutionaries in the countryside, the novel touches on the difficulties of revolutionary subjective development or remolding, and the fraught process of forming comradely relations. These difficulties issue from the reality that the revolution is a complex social process that centrally involves revolutionaries working towards transforming the social order to give birth to a new one, while transforming themselves into social actors engaged in the makings of an emergent, emancipatory lifeways. This article ventures into how this particular figuring of revolutionary experiences that foregrounds the subjective crises and contradictions in the revolution translate to an assertion of the perpetual imperative to rectify errors and adhere to the difficult demands of revolutionary remolding. Such figuring can serve a role in edifying an oppositional imagination of the revolution against the state's political demonology.

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revolution, NatDem fiction, novel, revolutionary subjectivity

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Comradeship, remolding and rectification in Norman Wilwayco's Gerilya

Laurence Marvin S. Castillo: University of the Philippines Los Baños

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