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Ninotchka Rosca
Ninotchka Rosca is an outstanding contemporary writer, human rights activist and feminist. She is the author of six books: her short story collections include Bitter Country and Monsoon Country; her two novels are State of War and Twice Blessed which earned the 1993 American Book Award for excellence in literature; and her books of non-fiction are The Fall of Marcos and her most recent, Jose Maria Sison: At Home in the World - Portrait of a Revolutionary. Rosca's short stories have been included in several anthologies, among them, the 1986 Best 100 Short Stories in the U.S. compiled by Raymond Carver and the Missouri Review Anthology. She is a two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a frequent contributor to Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Village Voice, Q and other U.S. and European periodicals.

The Derision of Torture PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ninotchka Rosca   
Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:05
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The mockery with which neo-cons participate in the current US discourse on torture is not surprising:  Limbaugh slapping himself gently and facetiously; Hannity offering to be waterboarded for charity; giggling theses as to what constitutes and does not torture…

Because that is what torture is – a derision.  It mocks our commonly held value of physical sovereignty.  Torture is often accompanied by jokes, laughter, obscenities from the torturers.  Any torture survivor will tell you this.  Hence, the unspeakable ridicule that was the essence of the Abu Ghraib pictures:  human beings as walls of naked buttocks, as contemptuously crucified with electrodes while hooded.  It is humanity’s disdain for its own frailty carried to an infinite degree.

Last Updated on Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:06
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The Sale Goes On PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ninotchka Rosca   
Friday, 27 February 2009 20:18
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For women of the Philippines, 2009 began with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s Administrative Order 247 to the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency to “execute a paradigm shift by re-focusing its functions from regulation to full blast market development efforts, the exploration of frontier, fertile job markets for Filipino expatriate workers.”

Last Updated on Thursday, 05 March 2009 13:59
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