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020			_a978-1-881261-19-3 _bpaperback
040			_beng _cAPEC Schools Library _erda
082			_aF 959.902 _bM461i 1997
100	1		_aMay, Glenn Anthony
245			_aInventing a hero : _bthe posthumous re-creation of Andres Bonifacio / _cGlenn Anthony May
264			_aQuezon City, PH : _bNew Day Publishers , _c©1997 _d[1997]
300			_a216 pages : _bsome illustrations ; _c18 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_a"Andres Bonifacio, the leader of the Philippine Revolution of 1896, has become one of the country’s great national heroes. He is celebrated in history textbooks read by millions of young Filipinos. His image, cast in bronze and cut into stone, stands on plazas across the archipelago. But what do we really know about him? As succeeding generations of historians have re-created his legend, has the real Bonifacio been lost to us forever? In this carefully researched work, Glenn May sifts through the slender documentary legacy that Bonifacio left behind after his execution in 1897. Through a close reading of these texts, he uncovers a history of mythmaking in the service of nationalism. Our contemporary image of Bonifacio is the sum of unreliable personal testimony and dubious, possibly doctored, documents. If the real history of the Philippine Revolution is to be written, May concludes, historians will have to break through these heroic myths and admit to the limitations of the existing sources."--
600			_aAndres Bonifacio _xBiography
678			_aGlenn May is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Battle for Batangas (1991), A Past Recovered (1987) and Social Engineering in the Philippines (1980).
942			_2ddc _cNFIC