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Literature Talk: Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
It’s Filipino American History Month
Join Professor John D. Blanco of UCSD’s Literature Department for a presentation on the influence and central role in the Filipino literary tradition of national martyr José Rizal’s history changing classic, Noli Me Tángere(Latin for Touch Me Not). It helped to create a unified Filipino national identity and has inspired key moments in Filipino history such as the Filipino Revolution of 1896, Filipino Independence, and the subsequent Filipino-American War of 1899.
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In its 135th year of publication, Noli Me Tángere remains the most important Filipino novel ever published. More than this, it's the most comprehensive catalog of colonial society - its characters, dramas, and conflicts - and the most succinct symbolic drama of the Philippines at a crossroads between a decaying Spanish empire and the rise of European and US imperialisms in Southeast Asia. The title, taken from the New Testament book of John (20:17), refers to the ambiguous moment after Jesus' resurrection, when he tells Mary Magdalene not to touch him. In Rizal's hands, the phrase also comes to signify the "untouchable," unspoken scandal of colon
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1965 in literature
Overview of the events of 1965 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1965.
You never heard such silence
— From Pinter's The Homecoming
Events
[edit]- February 10 – Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings.
- February 20 – While Soviet author and translator Valery Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship.
- March 26 – Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming receives its world première at the New Theatre, Cardiff, from the Royal Shakespeare Company under Peter Hall.[1] Its London première follows on June 3 at the Aldwych Theatre, with Vivien Merchant, Pinter's wife at this time, appearing. It also appears in print this year.
- May 26 – The world première of A High Wind in Jamaica, a film from Richard Hughes's 1929 novel, featuring the future novelist Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, as a teenage actor.
- June 11 – International Poetry Incarnation, a performance poetry event, takes place at London's Royal Albert Hall before an audience of 7,000, with members of the Beat Generation featuring. Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern".
- June 17 – The London pre