UNITAS Journal

This issue of UNITAS covers a range of subjects that broadly cut across topics, disciplinary boundaries, and thematic orientations. Ojano deals with two films, Ninotchka Rosca’s novel Twice Blessed (TB) and Darryl Yap’s movie Maid in Malacañang (MIM), focusing on their comparative ethical dimension; Garcia with a speculative fiction novel by Octavia Butler’s Parable of Talent, which is analyzed for how it is instructive in “surviving tyranny and creating a freer, more rational, inclusive, and tolerant society,” akin to a roadmap; San Juan with a prominent Filipino anti-colonial figure, Apolinario Mabini, who “invented the revolutionary subject” as a evidenced by two documents; and Porticos with a musical composer, Reynaldo Reyes, analyzing an important but less discussed aspect of musical scholarship and education, which is teaching methods or pedagogy in relation to excellence in stage performance.