Author Cecilia Brainard Gives Talk on UBEC: CEBU REIMAGINED, Cebuano Studies Center

Via Bea Las­ti­mosa of the Uni­ver­si­ty of San Car­los Cebuano Stud­ies Center:

After a brief hia­tus, the Vicente Sot­to Lec­ture Series will resume with a lec­ture by renowned writer Cecil­ia Brainard on Feb­ru­ary 19, 2022 from 10:00 ‑11:30 AM, Philip­pine time.

NOTE: Philip­pine time; Sat. Feb. 19, 2022, 10–11:30 a.m. is Cal­i­for­nia time: Fri, Feb. 18, 2022, 6 ‑7:30 pm.

In her lec­ture titled “Ubec: Cebu Reimag­ined” Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard talks about how she cre­at­ed her myth­i­cal set­ting of Ubec, which she uses in many of her short sto­ries and her three nov­els: When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, Mag­dale­na, and The News­pa­per Wid­ow. She explains how cre­at­ing this myth­i­cal set­ting freed her up to reimag­ine Cebu and its inhab­i­tants. She talks about some of the fic­tion­al char­ac­ters who were inspired by peo­ple of Cebu.

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