Resil Buagas Mojares (born September 4,

RESIL B. MOJARES 1943) is a Filipino historian and critic of

Philippine literature best known as for his ENIGMATIC OBJECT
books on Philippine history. He is acclaimed
Resil B. Mojares by various writers and critics as the Visayan Also one of his famous art book created by his
Titan of Letters, due to his immense the book named Enigmatic Objects, In
National Artist for Literature (2018) contribution to Visayan literature.[1] He was Enigmatic Objects, Resil B. Mojares traces
recognized in 2018 as a National Artist of the from colonial history the beginnings of
Birthday: 4 September 1943
Philippines for Literature - a conferment
museums in the Philippines— from the
which represents the Philippine state's
highest recognition for artists. One of the gabinetes and museos of Spanish colonial–
A teacher and scholar, essayist and fictionist, book created by Resil B. Mojares is the era educational institutions and the private
and cultural and literary historian, Resil collections of ilustrados, to the first attempts at
House of Memory: Essays, What does a institutionalizing public libraries and museums
Mojares is acknowledged as a leading figure
house speak? It speaks many things: of in the early period of American rule.
in the promotion of regional literature and
certain distance, enduring affections, of
history. As founding director of the Cebuano absence, neglect, infidelities of distraction,
Studies Center—an important research forgetting."
institution which placed Cebu in the research
and documentation map—he pioneered
Cebuano and national identity formation.

In this collection of essays, National Artist for

Literature Resil Mojares makes his way into
the past by framing his memories and Through vignettes that take off from such
As a leading figure in cultural and literary
musings as parts of a house. Each essay
history, he networked actively in many eccentric and eclectic items as the earliest
elicits that familiar nostalgia one gets while
organizations. For over 50 years, Mojares has visiting an old home and wistfully rummaging extant portrait of a Filipino, skulls of bandits
published in diverse forms (fiction, essay, through long-forgotten objects that bring back measured to explain the phrenology of crime,
journalism, scholarly articles, and books) the fond memories of childhood. Mojares's the fabled pestle of an indigenous hero, and
across a wide range of discipline (literature, writings create a sense of wonder about the teapots made of coconuts, the book itself
history, biography, cultural studies, and most ordinary objects and occurrences, becomes a cabinet of curiosities where the act
demonstrating a richness of emotion and a of collecting and displaying intertwines with
others). To date, he has 17 published books
deep mindfulness many only hope to
(3 more in the press) and edited, co-edited, or narrating a nascent Filipino nation.
achieve.
co-authored 11 books, and written numerous
articles for popular and scholarly publications..

Something of consequence happened in Mojares National Artist for Literature (2018) NOTABLE WORKS:
1885. On March 15 of that year, an open letter Birthday: 4 September 1943 A teacher and
appeared in the Manila press, issued by a scholar, essayist and fictionist, and cultural Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel: A
and literary historian, Resil Mojares is Generic Study of the Novel Until 1940
young Ilocano journalist named Isabelo de los
acknowledged as a leading figure in the
Reyes. In his letter, Isabelo called on people
(Quezon City, UP Press, 1983; second ed.
to send to him and to publications in Manila promotion of regional literature and history 1998)
manuscripts, documents, and all kinds of Mojares has authored books on Philippine
verbal or non-verbal materials relating to local history, literature, and politics, including The Man Who Would Be President: Serging
folklore. studies on three eminent Filipino intellectuals Osmeña and Philippine Politics
(Pedro Paterno, T. H. Pardo de Tavera, and
Isabelo de los Reyes). He has been a (Cebu: Maria Cacao, 1986)
recipient of six Philippine National Book
Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on
Awards. Two of our National Artists are Philippine Cultural History
natives of this island such as essayist and
literary historian Resil B. Mojares of Cebu (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University
and novelist Ramon L. Muzones of Iloilo Press, 2002)
province. Peter Solis Nery. This Hiligaynon
Theater in Society, Society in Theater: Social
pride from Iloilo is an award-winning Filipino
poet, fictionist, and author of various books. History of a Cebuano Village, 1840-1940
(Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University
Press, 1985)

The War Against the Americans: Resistance

and Collaboration in Cebu, 1899-1906
(Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University
Press, 1999)

House of Memory: Essays (Metro Manila:

Anvil Publishing, 1997)
The appeal seemed innocuous enough except Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T.H.
for the ambition that was behind it. Proudly Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes and
announcing that the “young science” (ciencia the Production of Modern Knowledge
niña) of folk-lore was the “New School”
(Nueva Escuela) in Europe, he urged his (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University
readers to form a movement he called folk- Press, 2006)
lore.
ISABELO’S ARCHIVE (METRO Few Filipino writers and critics have argued as
MANILA: ANVIL PUBLISHING,
2013).
Contoso
eloquently as Resil Mojares has for "building
the national," and bringing the regions into the

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mainstream of our literary consciousness. He
does this by gentle and effective persuasion,
without the screechiness and the opacity that
characterize too much of academic writing
today. Mojares is truly a scholar of the people,
both in his broad interests and concerns and in
his caring to be understood. -Jose Y. Dalisay,
Jr. PhD, award-winning writer and professor
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