Philperiodicals

Buenaventura J. Bello

World War II resulted in the destruction of Manila among other cities and the death of thousands of Filipinos. Many of those who survived were traumatized by witnessing events of unprecedented violence by the Japanese and the destruction of Manila's Intramuros neighborhood at the hands of the Americans. These horrific scenes were captured in accounts that were published in different forums.  Psychologists and philosophers have agreed on the difficulty of putting traumatic events into words. For this reason, some of the stories are full of onomatopoeias and noises, something that has been called "Thanatosonics". They also abound with descriptions of images that portray the event rather than the sensations involved. This epic account published in the magazine Philippines describes in detail the image of the death of the teacher Buenaventura J. Bello at the hands of a cruel Japanese soldiers for refusing to fold the American flag.  The article has a high aesthetic value that favors the portrayal of Bello as a hero in a magazine whose editorial line supported U.S. domination of the archipelago. Although on this occasion the account is written by a third party (since Bello's assassination is narrated), first-person accounts of the Battle of Manila, the Battle of Bataan, and other confrontations in the Philippines were very frequent.

Fecha

1943-05-06

Fuente

“Buenaventura J. Bello”. Philippines. May 6, 1943, pp. 7-8.  In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Agoncillo, Teodoro A. 2010. The Fateful Years. Japan’s Adventure in The Philippines, 1941-1945. Vol. 2. Quezon City: UP Press. 
Dalenberg, Constance. 2000. “Speaking Trauma: The Inadequacy of Language in Trauma Treatment”. Countertransference and the Treatment of Trauma. American Psychological Association: 57-84.
Damousi, Joy and Paula Hamilton. 2016. A Cultural History of Sound, Memory and the Senses. New York: Routledge.
Daughtry, J. Martin. 2015. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma and Survival in Wartime Iraq. Oxford: Oxford UP.
De la Rosa, Mariano. 1946. Fíame (Filipinas-América). Manila: N.p. 
Del Río, Benigno. 1952. Estampas de la ocupación: fragmentos de mi diario de guerra y liberación. N.l., n.p. 
Escoda, José Ma. Bonifacio Minguez. 2000. Warsaw of Asia: The Rape of Manila. Quezon City: Giraffe Books.
Hart, Christopher. 2008. Heroines and Heroes: Symbolism, Embodiment, Narratives & Identity. London: Mithras.
Lacapra, Dominick. 2016. La historia y sus límites: humano, animal, violencia. Barcelona: Bellaterra.
Martin, Jocelyn. 2015. "Manilaner’s Holocaust Meets Manileños’ Colonisation: Cross-Traumatic Affiliations and Postcolonial Considerations in Trauma Studies" Humanities 4, num. 4: 818-833. 
Ortuño, Rocío. 2018. “Los sonidos de la II Guerra Mundial en Manila”. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, num. 88: 291-314. 
Zamora Mascuñana, María Paz. 1960. Cuentos cortos 1919-1923 y recuerdos de la liberación, 1945. S.l, s.n.

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Colaborador

Rocío Ortuño Casanova

Idioma

English

Materia

Anti-colonialism

Heroes

Political literature

World War II