Project in Philippine Literature

Philippine Literature During the U.S

Colonialism

Presented by: METCHIE l. DINOPOL BEED-2

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Philippine literature during U.S colonialism, the American providing free

education, many were given the chance to study and English was

used as the language

instruction

Free education

served as the stepping stone for others to

improve their social status.

NOTABLE WORKS

>1940: Salvador P. Lopez’ LITERATURE AND SOCIETY which is a collection of critical reflections and serious essays and which won first

prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest of 1940.

> 1940: Camilo Osias published THE FILIPINO WAY OF LIFE, a series of essays on

the Filipino Way of Life as drawn from history, falkways, philosophy and

psychology of the Philippines.

>1941: F.B Icasiano (Mang Kiko) was reprints of the best of Icasiano’s in the Sunday Times Magazine under

the column From My Nipa Hut. It is an essay of the common “tao” and is written with humor and

sympathy.

> August 16,1941: Carlos P. Romulo had an editorial printed in the Philippines Herald. Entitled I

AM A FILIPINO, it was reprinted in his book MY BORTHER

AMERICANS.

LITERARY TYPES

News Poetry Stories Plays Novels Essays DRAMA

NEWSPAPERS

EL NUEVo DIA (THE NEW DAY)

Established by Sergio

Osmena in 1900.

The American censors band this twice and

threatened Osmena with banishment

because of his nationalistic

writings.

Is a puerto recant

newspaper.

P O E T R Y

> Was the first work

to be published in English.

> WRITTEN BY Julio Juliano in

1907

> Appeared in the

Renacimiento.

SURSUM CORDA (“LIFT

UP YOUR HEARTS”)

SHORT STORY

Footnote To YOUTH

By Jose Garcia Villa

(1931)This story gives a great moral

lesson for youth

Villa’s pursued more aggressively from

any obligations moral or political.

BANAAG AT SIKA

T

• By Lope K. Santos (1879-1963)• Written with the expressed intent

of introducing Filipino laborers to socialism.

• Tends to get in the way of swifter pacing, but satirical wit leavens the book with touches of humor.

N O V E L

E S S A Y

It was reprinted in his book My Bothers Americans in 1945 in New York by

Doubleday & Co.

Had an editorial printed in the Philippines Herald.

By Carlos P. Romulo (August 16,1941)

> 1903 by Aurelio

Tolentino

> A play of struggle vs. imperialist powers.

> The

hero

tagailog

has been

imprison

ed

D R A M A

“Kahapon Ngayon at

Bukas”

FICTIONAL PROSE

MARING (1908)

BUHAY (1909)> WRITTEN BY AURELIO TOLENTINO

NONFICTION PROSE

• The place

• Of origin

La Punta

de Salto

• Macario• AdriaticoWritten

by

RECREATIONAL PLAYS

MORO-MORO-a play on the

Spanish struggles

against the muslims.

SARSUWELA-an entertaining mixture

of mild social comment, lilting

music , and earthy humor on which a

slight love story was usually made to rest.

BALAGTASAN-form of debate in verse

DRAMA(1925-1941)-during this period did not reach the heights

attained by the novel or the short story.

SOURCES AND REFERENCES

• Philippine Literature Revised Edition

• (Bienvenido Lumbera)• (Cynthia Nograles Lumbera)

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