Philippine Literature during Martial Law Flashcards
There is MARTIAL LAW when direct military control and suspension of ordinary law, which is characterized by extremely controlled society.
TRUE
What is proclamation 1081 implemented on September 21, 1972?
MARTIAL LAW
Prominent political figures and media
personalities who openly criticized the government were
arrested, incarcerated, and/or went missing.
TRUE
What are the 4 Literary Works during the Martial Law Era?
PROTEST
PROLETARIAN
PRISON
CIRCUMVENTION
LIT WORK
example of protest?
A notable example was Lualhati Bautista’s Dekada ’70.
LIT WORK
What is protest?
aka revolutionary literature.
- works that express distaste, disagreement, or transgression to the present government, applicable to the current political,
social, and/or economic conditions of the country when the works were written.
LIT WORK
What is proletarian?
Literary works written by working-class authors about the
working class and xperiences and struggles of the
working class.
Authors that tackle social realism?
AMADO HERNANDEZ
JOSE PETE LACABA
What is social realism?
Works that aimed to EFFECT SOCIAL CHANGE through portraying the truths of society, everyday happenings, current events, and interaction and disparity of social classes are classified as depicting social realism.
Authors that make proletarian lit?
Arturo B. Rotor
Hernando Ocampo
LIT WORK
What is prison literature?
produced by authors who are incarcerated or
confined in a secluded area such as a prison cell.
why?
- the government arrested not only political and media dissidents but also writers and scholars
LIT WORK
example of proletarian?
He or They by Hernando Ocampo
LIT WORK
example of prison?
Pintig Sa Malamig na Bakal: Poems and Letters from
Philippine Prisons (1979)
Mila Aguilar’s Why Cage Pigeons? (1984).
Authors that make prison lit?
Mila Aguilar
Jose Ma. Sison
Ricardo Lee
LIT WORK
What is circumvention lit?
expressing social and political
transgression through metaphors, allegories, symbolisms, etc.
protest and circumvention are almost the same. what’s the difference?
mas masining/metaphorical/flowery and circumvention
Writers of prison type of literature used subtle codes and symbols so that the Marcos regime’s censors and inspectors do not notice the subversive message in the works.
FALSE! CIRCUMVENTION
LIT WORK
examples of circumvention lit?
Jose “Pete” Lacaba’s Sister Stella L. (1984) and Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim (1985).
LIT WORK
authors that make circumvention lit?
JOSE “PETE” LACABA
“literature of circumvention” prevalent from 1972
to 1983 was the artists’ way of “talking about and speaking the truth.”
- who said this?
NICANOR TIONGSON
