PHILIPPINE LITERATURE DURING PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD

Philippine Literature Midterm Group

SpaniSh Colonial period

Spanish occupied Philippines in early 15th century. The First Filipino alphabet is Alibata –

when Spanish colonized Philippines they changed

alibatas into Roman alphabet.

Spanish banned the use of Alibata because they believed

that it is a work of evil. So Spanish fully introduced the

Spanish literary language using many Spanish terms.

The European literature was brought by the Spaniards

and are assimilated in Filipino songs and indigenous themes.

The early printing press in the Philippine is run and

monopolized by the Spaniards friars.

During Spanish colonization Filipinos felt that they being harassed by the Spaniards.

Then the Birth of the Propaganda movement and

La Solidaridad.

Then Filipino fought and introduced Tagalog to be the language of revolution of the

nationalist movement.


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ORAL LITERATURE

DRAMA

SONGS

RELIGIOUSDRAMA

SONGSA song is a composition

for voice or voices, performed by singing. A choral or vocal song may

be accompanied by musical instruments,

or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs.

The lyrics (words) of songs are typically of

a poetic, rhyming nature, though they may

be religious verses or free prose.

SONGS

This song depicts humbleness. It's the

story of a man who tries to show what he got to

win the heart of his beloved one.

LERON LERON SINTA

SONGS

a Kundiman which means “one night” or

“one evening” in Bicol. A kundiman is a Filipino love song

traditionally sung by a man wooing the woman

of his dreams.

SARUMBANGGI

reliGiouS draMaThe religious drama, as setting

forth events recorded in the Bible or moral lessons to be drawn from religious teaching, is distinctively medieval in character, and in origin is closely connected with the services of the Church.

RELIGIOUS DRAMAPanunuluyan

(Tagalog for "asking for lodgings") is a Philippine Christmas dramatic ritual narrating the Holy Family's search for a place to stay in Bethlehem for Jesus Christ 's birth through song.

DRAMADrama is the

specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The enactment of

drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage beforean audience, presupposes

collaborative modes of production and a collective form of

reception.

DRAMA

“Why Women Wash the Dishes” is a play that depicts a betting game between couple whom either one would not like to wash the dishes. The play is filled with humor and antiques.

Bakit Babae ang Naghuhugas ng Pinggan

WRITTEN LITERATURE

SHORT STORIES

POETRY

POETRY

Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.

The story is about the love and determination of the Duke Florante and the Princess Laura of Albania while being pursued by the usurper Count Adolfo.

POETRY

FLORANTE AT LAURA

A short story is a brief

work of literature,

usually written

in narrative prose.

A classic definition of

a short story is that

one should be able to

read it in one sitting

SHORT

STORIES

The short story revolves

around one thing –

Freedom. Or more

clearly, it seeks to

define what is freedom,

and what sense it makes

to those who are not

free; slaved for the

atonement of their sins.

SHORT

STORIES

CONVICT’S

TWILIGHT

RIZAL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

JOSE RIZAL

MARCELO DEL PILARANDRES

BONIFACIO

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He is considered one of the national heroes of the Philippines. Studying in

Europe, he was the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He was wrongly implicated as the leader of the Katipunan Revolution, and that led to his execution on December 30, 1896, now celebrated as Rizal Day, a national holiday in the country.

JOSE RIZAL

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MI ULTIMO ADIOS

A poem written by Philippine national hero Dr José Rizal on the eve of

his execution on 30 December 1896. This poem was one of the last notes he wrote before his death; another

that he had written was found in his shoe but because the text was

illegible, its contents remains a mystery.

SELECTEDWORKS OF

MARCELO H. DEL PILAR

He was a celebrated figure in the Philippine Revolution and a leading propagandist

for reforms in the Philippines. Popularly

known as Plaridel, he was the editor and co-publisher

of La Solidaridad (The Solidarity).

SELECTEDWORKS OF

MARCELO H. DEL PILAR

This is a satire on the friars' hypocrisy, licentiousness and greed, which consists of parodies of the Sign of the Cross, the Act of Contrition, the Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary, and the catechism. Rizal considers this as a model of classical prose and an excellent example of Tagalog humor, wit, and sarcasm.

DASALAN AT TOCSOHAN

SELECTED

WORKS OF

He was a founder and later Supremo of the Katipunan movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution.

ANDRESBONIFACIO

“Father of

the Philippine

Revolution,"

SELECTED

WORKS OF

ANDRESBONIFACIOThis poem which was first published in the Diariong Tagalog. As the title indicates, the theme is directed to the Filipinos in order to arouse their spirit of nationalism and self-dependence.

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TINUBUANG

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AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD

Philippine literary production during the American Period in the Philippines was spurred by two significant developments in education and culture. One is the introduction of free public instruction for all children of school age and two, the use of English as medium of instruction in all levels of education in public schools.

Free public education made knowledge and information accessible to a greater number of Filipinos. Those who availed of this education through college were able to improve their social status and joined a good number of educated masses who became part of the country’s middle class.

The use of English as medium of instruction introduced Filipinos to Anglo-American modes of thought, culture and life ways that would be embedded not only in the literature produced but also in the psyche of the country’s educated class. It was this educated class that would be the wellspring of a vibrant Philippine Literature in English.

Philippine literature in English, as a direct result of American colonization of the country, could not escape being imitative of American models of writing especially during its period of apprenticeship.


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Phil Lit in English

TAGALOG

NOVEL

A novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and events in the form of a sequential story, usually. A Tagalog novel is a novel written in, of course, Tagalog.

TAGALOG

NOVEL

is one of the first literary novels written by Filipino author Lope K. Santos in the Tagalog language in 1906. As a book that was considered as the "Bible of working class Filipinos", the pages of the novel revolves around the life of Delfin, his love for a daughter of a rich landlord, while Lope K.

Banaag at Sikat

Romantic Poetry

The dominant theme of

Romantic poetry: the filtering

of natural emotion through

the human mind in order to

create art, coupled with an

awareness of the duality

created

by such a process.

Romantic Poetry

PAG-IBIGJose Corazon De

Jesus

José Corazón de Jesús , was

a Filipino poet

who used Tagalog poetry to express

the Filipinos' desire for independence

during the American occupation of

the Philippines,

a period that lasted from 1901 to 1946.

He is best known for being the

lyricist of the Filipino song

Bayan Ko.

SHORTSTORIES

A short story is a

brief work

of literature,

usually written

in narrative prose

. A classic

definition of a

short story is

that one should be

able to read it in

one sitting

SHORTSTORIES This is a sh

ort

story written by

Alejandro Roces

during his freshman

year in Arizona

State University. He

was well known for

his humorous stories

and whit in writing.

“We Filipinos are

Mild Drinkers” is

dated back to the

1940s.

We Filipinos Are

Mild Drinkers

Beginning of

Philippine Literature

in English

Philippine literature in English By 1901, public

education was institutionalized in the

Philippines, with English serving as the medium of

instruction. That year, around 600 educators in

the S.S. Thomas to replace the soldiers who had been serving as the

first teachers.

Beginning of

Philippine Literature

in English

"How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife"

A story about an occasion that would be a big day in the life of any family, the

day one of the sons of the family brings hope

the woman he intends to marry. The story is told

in the first person by Leon's younger brother.

Education

PHILIPPINE LITERATURE DURING PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD