POST COLONIAL Flashcards
What year was the POST-COLONIAL PERIOD?
1946-PRESENT
Day of declaration of Presidential Decree 1081?
September 21, 1972
With the declaration of Presidential Decree 1081 on September 21, 1972 what happened?
Many publications and mass media outlets were shut down, Filipino writers started to use their writings to explore socio -political realities.
Who are the critics?
Bienvenido Lumbera, and Epifanio San Juan Jr.
What happened in the 1970s?
People witnessed the proliferation of poems, short stories, and novels that grappled with the burning issues of the times.
In magazines and journals, writers in both English and Filipino faced what?
They faced the problems of exploitation and injustice and appropriated these realities as the only relevant materials for their fiction.
Who produced a large number of texts that were profoundly disturbing, even as these works zeroed in on the various forms of repression and violence?
Writers such as Ricardo Lee, Virgilio Almario, Efren Abueg, Ave Perez Jacob, and Dominador Mirasol
Who produced a large number of texts that were profoundly disturbing, even as these works zeroed in on the various forms of repression and violence??
Ricardo Lee, Virgilio Almario, Efren Abueg, Ave Perez Jacob, and Dominador Mirasol
In the underground press, writers used _____
Pen names
Who published the works, which they had to distribute under the radar??
Illegal organizations or group
Illegal organizations or group that are caught with such publications could be held in ____ or _____, _____, and even _____
detention or imprisoned, tortured, and even killed.
Literary Works - referred to as revolutionary literature. Mainly all about engagement,
combat, committed, resistance, socially conscious literature.
Protest Literature
works under this literature were too strong to ignore. It was deemed unimaginable, for the committed writer doing political work, to still think of poetry as beauty recollected in tranquility.”
Proletarian Literature
Journalists and prominent political opposition figures were the first to be ensnared in the dragnet cast by the Marcos intelligence and police apparatus, followed by militant activists, including academics who were also noted for their critical literary writings.
Prison Literature
it was in the precious little space afforded, wittingly or not, by certain publications and institutions sanctioned by the Martial Law Administration, that the so-called “Literature of Circumvention began to appear.”
Circumvention Literature
