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Rizal Without the Overcoat is a book by Filipino writer Ambeth Ocampo, adapted from his "Looking Back" column in the Philippine Daily Globe from October 1987 to July 1990. . These writings were attempts to "translate" José Rizal and his historical context so that he could be better understood by a new generation—to present "a "new" Rizal that had been obscured by school and myth.
Ambeth R. Ocampo OL KGOR OMC OAL is a Filipino public historian, academic, cultural administrator, journalist, author, and independent curator. [2] He is best known for his definitive writings about Philippines' national hero José Rizal and on topics in Philippine history and Philippine art through Looking Back, his bi-weekly editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Those who affirm the authenticity of Rizal's retraction are prominent Philippine historians such as Nick Joaquin, [note 12] Nicolas Zafra, [85] León María Guerrero III, [note 13] Gregorio Zaide, [87] Guillermo Gómez Rivera, Ambeth Ocampo, [84] John N. Schumacher, [88] Antonio M. Molina, [89] Paul Dumol [90] and Austin Craig. [27]
Ambeth Ocampo, pictured in 2024, has written many books and publications in his lifetime.. The bibliography of Philippine historian Ambeth Ocampo is a list of approximately more than one hundred works which the historian has written, co-written, edited, and includes works for which he has written a foreword, introduction or afterword.
In 1990, historian Ambeth Ocampo stated that Rizal was a "conscious hero", i.e., he had projected himself as a national figure prior to his execution and he was deemed as the national hero by Bonifacio, who even named Rizal as the honorary president of the Katipunan, long before Rizal was praised by the American occupational administrators. [5]
Makamisa (English: After Mass) is an unfinished novel by Filipino patriot and writer José Rizal.The original manuscript was found by historian Ambeth Ocampo in 1987 while going through a 245-page collection of papers.
Some people think Ambeth Ocampo is inventing some tsismis about Rizal when, in fact, he based these on primary resources. Also, Makamisa won an award for it's unprecedented scholarly research---in particular, in his painstaking reconstruction of the unfinished novel, which is peppered with annotations. (If my memory serves me correctly, the ...
Historian Ambeth Ocampo, National Artist of the Philippines, writer Virgilio S. Almario, and others have debunked Rizal's traditional authorship of the poem based on the following: [5] The poem uses the Tagalog word kalayaan (liberty/freedom). However, the earliest Rizal might have first encountered the word was 1882, when he was 21 years old ...