soo 21st pt 1

littera

Literature ; letters

Literature

> anything that is written

> collection of written works made in a certain language, place, or time

> shows important human experiences using carefully chosen and arranged words

Oral Literature, Folk Songs, and Folk Tales

oral characteristic of precolonial literature

riddle

> folklore genre ; rhetorical device

> veiled or double meanings

Proverbs

often use metaphors or creative imagery to express a broader truth.

Lullabies, Drinking Songs, Love Song, Songs of Death, and Religious Songs

Folk Songs

Folk tales (Kuwentong Bayan)

short, traditional stories passed down orally within communities

Myths

Traditional Stories often involving supernatural phenomena.

Legends

Traditional stories that are regarded as historical but unauthenticated

Epics

long narrative poem recounting the deed of heroes

Fables

Features animals that behave like humans.

Christian faith

When The Spaniards came, There was an Immediate shift on the focus of Literature, It became centered on the

Pasyon

About the passion and death of Jesus Christ

Corrido

> legendary religious narrative form

> details the lives of saints or the history of a tradition.

Awit

> chivalric poem about a hero, usually a saint

> sung in religious processions

Carillo Moro

> Moro Comedia de capa y Espada

> a blood-andthunder melodrama

> depicting the conflict of Christians and Muslims

Carillo

play that uses shadows as its main spectacle

Tibag

dramatic reenactment of St. Helena's search for the Holy Cross

Duplo or Karagatan

> native drama's

> connected to the Catholic mourning rituals and harvest celebrations

Propaganda Literature

> body of writings created by Filipino reformists (mainly in the late 19th century)

> to raise awareness of injustices under Spanish colonial rule and to peacefully demand reforms.

La Solidaridad

main organ of the Propaganda Movement

Dr. Jose Rizal

- Noli Me Tangere (1887)

- El Filibusterismo (1891)

Graciano López Jaena

Fray Botod

Marcelo H. del Pilar

Dasalan At Tocsohan

Revolutionary Literature

body of writings that supported, inspired, or directly advocated for revolution and independence from Spanish rule

Andres Bonifacio

Pagibig sa tinubuang Lupa

Emilio Jacinto

Kartilya ng katipunan

American War (1898)

Americans colonized the Philippines after the Spanish

American colonial government

introduced public education and made English the medium of instruction

Cecilio Apostol

wrote the poem " To the National Hero" or Ai Heroe Nacional

Manuel Arguilla

How My brother Leon Brought home a wife

Valeriano Hernandez

Nena At Neneng

Paz Marquez Benitez

Dead Stars

The Japanese ; December 1941

invaded the Philippines in blank shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

occupation officially began in blank after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor.

Haiku, Tanka and Tanaga

Short, image-driven poetry inspired by Japanese forms

Haiku

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Tanka

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Tanaga

Equal Syllables

Liwayway Arceo

Uhaw ang Tigang na Lupa

Narciso Reyes

Lupang Tinubuan

Macario Pineda

Ako'y Isang Taga Bukid

Brigido Batungbakal

Suyuan sa Tubigan

Narciso Pimentel

Punyal na Ginto

Contemporary Period

> Writers gained more freedom of expression compared to the strict censorship of colonial times.

> Strong realism and social criticism Focus on ordinary people's lives, especially the marginalized

Lualhati Bautista

Dekada 70 a family awakening to activism under Martial Law.

"Dekada '70"

explores themes of family, social injustice, activism, and the impact of political turmoil on individuals and their relationships.

Pete Lacaba/ Ruben Cuevas

> One of the Poet and Activist during the Martial Law

> wrote several stories and poems such as "Prometheus Unbound"

Rene Villanueva

One of the Playwrights, Children book writers,

PETA

> Philippine Educational Theater Association

> 1967 by Cecile Guidote-Alvarez

> theater group committed to using Filipinolanguage plays for social change

The People Power Revolution (EDSA Revolution)

peaceful uprising in February 1986 that united millions of Filipinos to remove Ferdinand Marcos from power

- People's unity (bayanihan)

- Nonviolent resistance

- Triumph of democracy

- Dignity of the Filipino

- Memory and accountability

- Hope for a new beginning

Themes of EDSA Literature

-Edith Tiempo

-Bienvenido Lumbera

-N.V.M Gonzales

-Virgilio Almario

-Cirilio Bautista

-Nick Joaquin

-F. Sionil Jose

-Amado V. Hernandez

-Lazaro Francisco

-Alejandro Roces

-Carlos Romulo

-Jose Garcia Villa

-Rolando Tinio

-Francisco Arcellana

-Levi Celerio

-Carlos Quirino

Philippine Canonical Authors