21st Century Finals

Post-War & Contemporary Period

-          Refers to literary works written and published from 1946 onward

-          Refers to literary works written and published from 1946 onward

-          Filipino writers got their inspiration from American teachers

-          Literary works often focused on:

courageous deeds

sacrifices

the suffering and resilience of Filipinos

-          Experience in the lives of the Filipino people under the Spanish & American rule and Japanese Occupation

-          Literary genre:

Short stories

Novels

Essays

Poems

• Nick Joaquin

• Francisco Sionil Jose

• Alejandro “Anding” Roces

3 Most Known Writers During this Time (Post-War & Contemporary Period)

Nick Joaquin

-          Novelist, poet, playwright, biographer and essayist/journalist

-          National Artist for Literature in 1976

Nicomedes “Nick” Marquez Joaquin

Nick Joaquin full name

Quijano de Manila

Nick Joaquin (pen name)

May Day Eve

Nick Joaquin famous work.

Francisco Sionil Jose

-          National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 2001

-          Filipino experience:

poverty

social inequality

abuse of power

injustice

colonialism

class differences

Filipino identity

Waywaya

Francisco Sionil Jose famous work.

Alejandro “Anding” Roces

-          National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 2003

-          Themes:

Filipino cultural identity

National pride

Folk traditions

We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers

Alejandro “Anding” Roces famous work.

Fiction

-          Imagination

-          Characters, events, and places are not real

-          Poetry, fiction, drama literacy

-          Aims to entertain the reader

-          Reflects the writer’s imagination

-          Broader audience

-          Informal

-          Artistic

Creative Nonfiction

-          Real events

-          Real people

-          Fact-based writing

-          Journalism, Biography, Autobiography, Personal Narrative

-          Entertain and share human experience

-          Typically, broader than audiences for scholarly writing

-          Factually accurate and written with attention to literary style and technique

-          Combination of formal and creative language

-          Overlays fact with traditional conceptions of dramatic structure

Fiction

-          Is a type of literature that is created from the writer’s imagination. The characters, events, setting, or plot may be entirely invented or partly inspired by real life, but they are not presented as factual accounts of real events

Creative Nonfiction

-          The word “creative” refers to the use of literary craft, the techniques fiction writers, playwrights, and poets employ to present nonfiction – factually accurate prose about real people and events – in a compelling, vivid, dramatic manner

• The Literature of Fact

• Narrative Nonfiction

• The Literature of Reality

• Literary Journalism

• The Fourth Genre

Creative nonfiction has many names (5)

Autobiography

Is a non-fiction literary format that is self-written account of a person’s life.

Anne Frank: “The Diary of a Young Girl”

Autobiography (example)

• Autobiography

Forms of Literary Genre of Creative Nonfiction