MODULE 1 Philippine Literature: American Colonization Flashcards
They promised the Filipinos freedom once the country is ready to handle its own government and lead its people. Thus, the ________________________was created.
- Americans
- Commonwealth Government
The Americans also opened the idea of ________________________________ in the Philippines.
free education and public schools
Schools were established and Filipinos were trained under the ________________ of education.
American system
______________ were the first American teachers of the Filipinos.
Thomasites
During this time, ___________________ proposed that English be used as the medium of instruction in educating the Filipino scholars in American established schools.
American President McKinley
Students’ outputs such as poems, essays, or short stories, were mostly written in __________.
English
The prominent languages used at that time __________ the Filipino writers.
divided
Still, amidst the differences in language, themes about __________________________________________________ were some of the prevalent themes explored at that time.
desire for freedom, love for one’s country, and fighting against colonial imperialism
The introduction of the new educational system and the ______________________ allowed the Filipino youth to explore.
English language
__________________ and their way of life had also affected the themes and manners in which the Filipinos wrote at this time.
Western ideologies
Literary forms have changed as writers were influenced by ___________________, a school of thought that was created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
literary modernism
This, according to ____________________, “highlighted the writer’s individuality, cultivated consciousness at the expense of social consciousness.”
Godinez-Ortega
The exploration of Filipino writers in English could be divided into three timeframes:
- period of re-orientation
- period of imitation
- period of self-discovery
It is a timeframe wherein Filipino writers were still adjusting to the newfound freedom, as compared to their situation during the Spanish regime.
period of re-orientation
It is a timeframe wherein after they had settled with the newfound freedom that had allowed them to gain access with the ideologies of the west.
period of imitation
It is a timeframe wherein writers imitated the styles of British and American writers, which resulted in unnatural and rigid styles of writing.
period of imitation
It is a timeframe wherein it was marked by the Filipino writers’
mastery of the English language.
period of self-discovery
_____________________________________ were all products of the University of the Philippines and the brightest writers in English.
Jose Garcia-Villa, Angela Manalang-Gloria, and Paz Marquez-Benitez
_______________ defeated the Spaniards in Spanish-American war.
Americans
In ______, a new group started to write in English; hence, Spanish, Tagalog, and the vernaculars and English were the media used in literature.
1910
