Postwar Philippine Literature Flashcards
Filipino writers continued writing in whatever language was acceptable at each period.
TRUE
The Filipino people have been influenced by different
colonizers, which led to our country’s sense of hybrid
identity.
TRUE
Philippine literature was interrupted in its
development when the Philippines was again occupied by
another foreign country, Japan.
Philippine literature in English
came to halt.
It took a while before the writers could find their
bearings after the war.
The Japanese prohibited writing in English, which resulted in the writers’ renewed attention to literature in the Filipino language.
TRUE
Writers in postwar poetry and fiction were?
English educated and trained in writers’ workshops in the United States or England.
Examples of writers in post lit that were english educated and trained in writers’ workshops in US or ENGLAND?
Edilberto and Edith Tiempo (who was also a poet)
short-fictionist Francisco Arcellana
poet-critic Ricaredo Demetillo
poet-fictionist Amador Daguio
poet Carlos Angeles, fictionists N.V.M.
Gonzalez and Bienvenido N. Santos.
Most of these writers returned to the Philippines to?
TEACH
The educated in English writers had good reputations. they influenced the form and direction of the next generation of writers mainly in accordance with the tenets of the formalist New Critics of America and England.
TRUE
What are the 5 characteristics of Post War Lit?
Influence of Romanticism
Nationalism
Independence
Nature
Expression of Feelings
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What is Influence of Romanticism?
– This is an 18th century literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that is a reaction against neoclassicism.
It emphasizes the imagination and emotions.
(started by Americans/american period, but did not end there)
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What is nationalism?
Exalting one’s nation above all others and placing primary
NATION’S CULTURE and welfare before those of other nations.
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What is Independence?
This is the quality or state of having freedom from being controlled by others.
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What is nature?
– In Philippine postwar literature, natural scenery is praised and described.
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What is expression of feelings?
The characters in Philippine postwar literature were portrayed
as being able to express their feelings through their thoughts, words, and actions.
Romanticism is known for its sensibility and its use of autobiographical material, emotions of happiness of the common man, an appreciation of nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use of older verse forms in poems.
TRUE
Who are the 3 notable writers during PWL?
- Macario Pineda
- NVM Gonzales
- Stevan Javellana
