To Remember to Remember by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo

To Remember to Remember: Reflections on the Literary Memoirs of Filipino Women by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo This book picks up a story which the author began to tell in 1994, with her groundbreaking study of the autobiographical narratives of Filipino women, "Filipino Woman Writing" (Second Edition, UST Publishing House, 2015). Here, Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, a much-awarded writer of fiction and Non-Fiction, literary scholar, teacher and mentor to numerous younger writers, turns to the first women writers to own the name “literary memoirist.” Four generations of women writers are represented in this unusual volume which is itself both creative Non-Fiction and literary study: Paz Policarpio-Mendez (b. 1903); Solita Camara-Besa (b. 1915); Gilda Cordero-Fernando (b. 1930); Merlie Alunan (b. 1943); Criselda Yabes (b. 1964); Jenny Ortuoste (b.1968); and Rica Bolipata-Santos (b. 1969). Fascinating as the differences among them are, the things they have in common are equally striking. And, a