AFRO-ASIAN LITERATURE COLONIAL ERA: ASIAN

written by people from mixed colonialism was imposed over

African-Asian ethnicity. Southeast Asia. for hundred of years
literary output of various countries their kingdoms had been engaged in
and culture in Africa and Asia. international commercial relations
Include their tradition and with traders from East Asia (China),
contemporary written or published South Asia (India), and West Asia
prose and poetry. (Middle East).
NORMS AND CULTURE myittazza (epistle)- lengthy prose
care for family, friends, find social letter written by a monk and sent to
value & love of country the king to warn him of his
active in celebrating festivals that obligations, initially developed
reflect their characteristics as Asian. during this time, and various
religious, give thanks and offerings countries, both men and women,
talented in all aspects and good also started to see some literary
writers. success.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRO-ASIAN POST-COLONIAL ERA: ASIAN
LITERATURE common themes are cultural
great emphasis on history, culture dominance, racism, quest for
and customs of group of people identity, inequality along with some
when telling stories peculiar presentation styles.
handed by generation to post-colonial writers reflected and
generation, educate and remind demonstrated many thematic
people about past and heroic deeds concepts which are quite.
of people, ancestry and culture  some writers include Amitav
THE PHASES OF AFRO-ASIAN Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy,
LITERATURE Shyam Selvaduria, and Sara Suleri.
PRE-COLONIAL ERA: AFRICAN
literary works are done before the
coming of the white men to the
African continent
literary works are more interesting
to the young people
COLONIAL ERA: AFRICAN
work mostly portrayed slave
narratives
Olaudah Equiano- enslaved man
who bought his freedom and wrote
compellingly about his experiences
Chinua Achebe-famous writer,
published “Things Fall Apart” in
1958
this era focuses in the effect of
colonialism
writers suffer directly and deeply
even at the hands of their own
governments
POST-COLONIAL ERA: AFRICAN
African literature refers to
publications that were created after
some African states that were
formerly under the control of
European colonialism achieved their
political independence
numerous African writers
appeared in Western university
curriculum, some of their writings
became well-known and widely
read works of the 19th century.
PRE-COLONIAL ERA: ASIAN
focuses with the existence of
written language also come from
literature as natural consequence
abounds in the form of Sabi
(maxims), bugtong (riddles), epics
and myths.
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Society- a great formator,
regardless of epoch, its fluctuating
norms and values are the means to
structure the tone and spirit of its
time, temperament of people,
economic activities.
like marionettes to a puppeteer so
are people to their society
SUEZ CANAL-brought in
unprecedented wealth in the hands
of the Filipino and liberal ideas in
the form of literatures and word of
mouth.
Sinibaldo de Mas- Spanish high
official, reported in 1840, that
priests and local administrators
were either physically violated or
molested.
Under Three Flags: anarchism and
the anti-colonial imaginations- by
Benedict Anderson--- Europe an US
have been wobbled by series of
spectacular assassinations directed
against heads of states, high-ranked
military officers, reactionary
authorities and capitalist (class
enemies and animate the oppressed
to re-prepare themselves for a
revolution)
Rizal’s stay in Europe exposed him
in works: Chateaubriand, Daudet,
Dumas, Hugo, Lesage, Sue, Voltaire
and Zola (France); Bulwer-Lytton,
Defoe, Dickens and Thackeray
(England); Goethe and Hoffman
(Germany); Manzoni (Italy); Douwes
Dekker (Netherlands); Cervantes
(Spain)---political destiny
King Louis XVI “l’etat, c’est mol” (I
am the state)—govern on the basis
of “free consent of the governed”
Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo
Ngayon” – 1976 film of Eddie
Romero
Great Individuals as Agencies of
Change by Piotr Sztompka (1993) -
legacy of sociological thinking about
change. 4 grand visions: the
evolutionary, the cyclical, the
dialectal, and the post-
developmentalist
RIZAL IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 19TH
CENTURY PHILIPPINES in the Making
of a Nation: Essays on 19th Century
Filipino Nationslism by John
Schumcher 1991- emergence of
Filipino consciousness in the 2nd half
of 19th century (from Padre Burgos
to American colonization)
The Promise in the Sociological
Imagination by C. Wright Mills- 1959
—relationship between history and
society : Seeing how the unique
historical circumstances of a
particular society affect people and
how people affect society.
1861-1871 Childhood and early MEMORIAS DE UN ESTUDIANTE DE
education (Calamba and Binan) MANILA- Rizal (1878-1881)- 17 yrs
1972-1882 Rizal old, P. Jacinto
~My Birth-Early Years-account of his
fanily
RIZAL’S FAMILY, CHILDHOOD, AND ~My Life Away from My Parents/My
EARLY EDUCATION Sufferings- stuying in Binan
~From January 1871-June 1872,
Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y period after Binan
Alonzo Realonda – June 19, 1861- ~1873-1875, studies in Ateneo
7th child ~Two Years in College, covering his
Francisco Rizal Mercado y studies in UST
Alejandro- (1818-1898) Latin and ~April-December 1877, studies and
Philosophy at College of San Jose in memories of Segunda Katigbak
Manila ~From January to December 1878,
Teodora Alonzo y Quintos- (1826- short account
1911) Sta. Risa College, imprisoned ~My First Reminiscence, incident
twice for flimsy reasons RIZAL’S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE-
Rizal family- principalia or middle 1918 Austin Craig; 5 chapters;
class (origin from the pre-colonial Memorias, other chapters: Rizal’s
royal and noble class of datus of the first reading lesson, Rizal’s
established local kingdoms) - childhood impressions, an account
allowed to vote, elected to public of the “turkey incident”, Rizal’s
office, Don or Dona. accounts of his travels across
Mercados were tenants of the America and his deportation to
Dominican estates in Calamba, Dapitan, Rizal’s advice to his
Laguna—lease of hacienda and rice nephew, Filipino proverbs, Filipino
farm puzzles, Rizal’s don’t’s, memory
SIBLINGS gems from Rizal’s writings, Mariang
Saturnina (1850-1913)-five children Makiling and some pictures and
Manuel Hidalgo of Tanauan, sketches.
Batangas
Paciano (1851-1930) Major General
in Phil. Revolutionary army, farmer
in Los Banos, 2 children to Severina
Decena
Narcisa-(1852-1939) 9 children by
Antonio Lopez, Morong Rizal
Olimpia (1855-1887) 3 children,
Silvestre Ubaldo
Lucia (1857-1919) Mariano Herbosa
(denied Christian burial awhen he
died of cholera in 1889)
Maria (1859-1945) 5 children by
Daniel Faustino of Binan Laguna
Jose (1861—1896)
Concepcion (1862-1865) died at an
early age
Josefa (1865-1945) didn’t get
married
Trinidad (1868-1951) unmarried and
lived with Josefa
Soledad (1870-1929) 5 children by
Pantaleon Quintero, classmate of
Leonor Rivera
Paternal- Domingo Lamco, pure
Chinese, Chinchew China, Ines dela
Rosa (Filipino-Chinese)
Maternal- Eugenio Ursua/Ochoa,
Japanese, Benigna (Filipina)
Claveria Decree of 1849- Nov 21,
Gov. Gen. Narciso Claveria,
Alfabetico de Apellidos for civil and
legal purposes.