
Pax Tecum Filomena: Una Canción para Ti
- Publisher
- Matarile Ediciones
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Zine
32 pages
5.5 x 8 in
First edition
Distributed by Dashwood Books
An ode to Muriel Hasbun's paternal cousin Janet Samour Hasbun, who joined the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) during the Salvadoran Civil War. Hasbun grew up in El Salvador in a Christian Palestinian family. At the revolution museum, the Museo de la Revolución, she came across a photograph of Janet holding a rifle, and remembered that her father, a dentist, had been asked to identify Janet's body after she was captured, tortured and killed in 1984, but his dental archive held no casts or X-rays of her smile. She had known Janet only through the eyes of a ten-year-old, as a beauty queen with long black hair; in the photograph she had become Comandante Filomena. Years later she discovered Janet in her father's family photographs, and this new album finally brings together Janet and Filomena amidst the family and the country, closing with a farewell and a song for her.