Patrick Joseph Punsalan III-8

Different periods in the development of Philippine Literatures.

I.

Pre Colonial A. Certain events from the nation's history had forced lowland Filipinos to begin counting the years of history from 1521. B. The oral literature of the precolonial Filipinos bore the marks of the community. B.1 Subject was invariably the common experience of the people constituting the village-food-gathering, creature and objects of nature, work B.2 evident in the most common forms of oral literature like the riddle, the proverbs and the song, C. The syllabary had three vowels and 14 consonants D. Perishable materials on which the Filipinos wrote were disintegrate and the missionaries who believed that indigenous pagan culture was the handicraft of the devil himself destroyed those that remaine D.1 Maranaws, the Maguindanaws, and the Tausogs of Mindanao and Igorots, Ifugao, Bontocs and Kalingas of the Mountain Province were able to preserve the integrity of their ethnic heritage E. Ancient Filipinos possessed great wealth of lyric poetry.

F. Precolonial poetry was composed of poems composed of different dialects of the islands. F.1 Poems, poetry, songs F.2 Maxims, proverbs, epigrams, and the like have been listed by many different collectors and researchers from many dialects. F.3 Riddles were existent in all languages and dialects of the ancestors of the Filipinos G. Prose narratives in prehistoric Philippines consisted largely or myths, hero tales, fables and legends. Their function was to explain natural phenomena, past events, and contemporary beliefs II. Spanish Colonial Period Literature in this period may be classified as religious prose and poetry and secular prose and poetry. A. The European literature was brought by the Spaniards and is assimilated in Filipino song and indigenous themes. B. The early printing press in the Philippine is run and monopolized by the Spaniards friars. C. Spanish Spanish colonial period literary genres consist of: Pasyon, Cenaculo, Tibag, Carillo shadow play, Political essay, Comedia, Zarzuela, Spanish revolutionary Papers, El Heraldo de la revolusion, La Republica Filipina, La independencia, La libertad, La revolution. D. During Spanish colonization Filipinos felt that they being harassed by the Spaniards. Then the Birth of the Propaganda movement and La Solidaridad.

E. Then Filipino fought and introduced Tagalong to be the language of revolution of the nationalist movement. E.1 Pedro Bukakeng Lam ang, Dr. Jose Rizal Noli me Tangere, El Filibusterismo, Mi Ultimo Adios III. American Colonial Period A. New literary forms such as free verse [in poetry], the modern short story and the critical essay were introduced.

A.1 American influence was deeply entrenched with the firm establishment of English as the medium of instruction in all schools.

A.2 Literary modernism that highlighted the writer's individuality and cultivated consciousness of craft, B. Writers in the vernaculars continued to write in the provinces. Others like Lope K. Santos, Valeriano Hernandez Pea and Patricio Mariano were writing minimal narratives similar to the early Tagalog short fiction called dali or pasingaw C. The romantic tradition was fused with American pop culture or European influences in the adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan by F. P. Boquecosa who also penned Ang Palad ni Pepe after Charles Dicken's David Copperfield D. The essay in English became a potent medium from the 1920's to the present. D.1 Some leading essayists were journalists like Carlos P. Romulo, Jorge Bocobo, Pura Santillan Castrence, etc. who wrote formal to humorous to informal essays for the delectation by Filipino

E. The last throes of American colonialism saw the flourishing of Philippine literature in English. IV. republic
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