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Articles from Behind the Walls: Life of Convent Girls in the Philippines

March 4, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

The fol­low­ing are per­son­al essays from a book project I did in 2005, BEHIND THE WALLS: LIFE OF CONVENT GIRLS (Anvil, 2005).  For more infor­ma­tion about the book, please vis­it https://ceciliabrainard.com/book/behind-the-walls/ .  The pub­lish­er Anvil Philip­pines may have a few copies left in their online store.

The book has been praised by Loi­da Nico­las, Chair and CEO, TLC Beat­rice Foods as follows:

“The sto­ries in this book will give read­ers an inkling of how and why the cole­giala women think, speak and act as they do. The nuns have def­i­nite­ly put their stamp on our psy­che — for good and for not so good. But most of all, they taught us how to live and how to overcome.”

I’ll be post­ing arti­cles from that book in this blog post, so check back:

  1.  Dr. Herminia Meñez Coben  — “Behind the Walls of St. Scholastica’s College”

  2. Gemma Cruz-Araneta — Benevolent Assimilation   

      3.  Neni Sta Romana Cruz — Growing Up St. Scholastican

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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