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Remembering Camp O'Donnell: From Shared Memories to Public History in the Philippines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Arnel Joven
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Abstract

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This article examines Filipino memories of the Asia-Pacific War. In particular, it investigates which survivor accounts developed into the dominant historical narrative as well as looks at how prisoner of war monuments on Camp O'Donnell have been influenced by political and economic developments after the Asia-Pacific War. This study also re-examines how these shared memories about Camp O'Donnell complemented each other and became part of the canonical wartime narrative in Philippine history. This article uses “politics of mourning” as a framework in analyzing key events that led to both the development of canonical narratives in the construction of public history as embodied in the monuments and shrines in the present-day Capas National Shrine.

Keywords

prisoners of warthe PhilippinesCamp O'DonnellCapas National Shrinepolitics of mourningshared memoriespublic history
Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 20 , Issue 11 , June 2022 , e3
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2022

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