21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE d.

The American Regime

PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD - Americans influenced Filipino
writers to write using English
a. Pre-Spanish Era
language.
- Chants/Bulong: used in witchcraft
- Jose Garcia Villa: famous for his
or enchantment especially in
free verse
Visayas
First National Artist for Literature
- Legends: folklore that consists of
in English (1973).
a narrative featuring human
actions perceived to have taken
e. Japanese Occupation
place within human history.
- Philippine literature in English
- Folktales: made up stories, where
came to a halt.
one can derive lessons
- Filipino Poetry: nationalism,
- Epic: long narrative poems in
country, love, life in barrios, faith
which a series of heroic
▪ Haiku: free verse, 17 syllables, 3
achievements
lines
- Folk Songs: one of the oldest
▪ Tanaga: had measure and rhyme
forms of Philippine literature,
▪ Karaniwang Anyo (Usual Form)
usually have 12 syllables
f. Period of Activism
b. Spanish Period
- The youth moved to seek
- Alibata replaced by Roman
reforms.
alphabet
- Literary Revolution: demanded
- the teaching of the Christian
change in the government
Doctrine became the basis of
religious practices.
g. Period of New Society
- Folk Songs: manifests the artistic
- September 21, 1972
feelings of the Filipinos and
- News on economic progress,
shows their innate appreciation
discipline, culture, tourism, and
for and love of beauty.
the like were favored more than
- Recreational Plays: Cenaculo,
the sensationalized reporting of
Panunuluyan, Salubong and
killings, rape, and robberies.
Zarzuela
h. The Period of Third Republic
c. Period of Enlightenment
- Romantic and Revolutionary
- Illustrados: Filipino intellectuals
- January 2, 1981
educated in Europe
- The Propaganda Movement
i. Post Edsa I Revolution
(1872-1896):
- February 21-25 1986,
▪ Jose Rizal (Dimasalang; Laong
- People Power (Lakas ng Bayan)
Laan)
▪ Marcelo del Pilar (Plaridel)
j. 21st Century Period
▪ Graciano Lopez Jaena (Diego
- ICT inclined
Laura)
- New codes or lingos are used
Identifying Representative Texts from the
Regions
Ilocos Region
- Imagery: a poetic element that
tries to create a picture in the
mind of the reader or a mental
image through the use of figural
language.
- Gabu by Carlos A. Angeles:
depicts a coastline in Ilocos that is
constantly experiencing the
battering restlessness of the sea
CALABARZON
- Tagalog Essay
- Recognized all over the country
for their bravery and fearlessness
in battles
Islands of Visayas
- share a sea-based culture and
tradition that may be rooted in a
strong religious foundation
CONVENTIONAL AND 21ST CENTURY
GENRES
Conventional
a. Poetry: an imaginative awareness of
experience expressed through
meaning, sound and rhythmic
language choices
b. Drama: a play; composition in prose
or verse presenting in dialogue
c. Literary Fiction: literature created
from the imagination
d. Literary Non-fiction: It is based on
facts and the author’s opinion about a
subject.
21st Century Genres
a. Illustrated Novel: a story or narrative
told through words complemented by
illustrated images
b. Digi-fiction: Triple Media Literature
(book, movie/video, and internet
website)
c. Graphic Novel: narratives told in
comic-strip formats and published as
a book.
d. Manga: generic term for all comic
books and graphic novels originally
published in Japan
e. Doodle Fiction: the author
incorporates doodle writing,
drawings, and handwritten graphics
in place of the traditional font
f. Text-talk Novels: stories told almost
entirely in dialogue simulating social
network exchanges
g. Chick Lit: humorous and lighthearted
fiction which addresses issues of
modern womanhood
h. Flash Fiction: story narrated in an
extremely brief way, but still offers
plot and character development and
implies a larger story
i. Creative Non-Fiction: genre of
writing that uses literary styles and
techniques to create factually
accurate narratives
j. Science Fiction: speculative fiction
dealing with imaginative concepts
such as futuristic science and
technology
k. Blog: a website containing short
articles called posts that are updated
regularly.
l. Hyper Poetry: digital poetry that uses
links and hypertext markup
CONTEXT AND TEXT’S MEANING
Context
- notion of weaving together
- the circumstances that form the
- setting of events, statements, or
ideas and in the way of which it
can be fully understood and
assessed.
Types of Context
a. Writer’s Context
b. Reader’s Context
c. Text’s Context
d. Socio-Cultural Context
Structure: words that are put together or
arranged
Imagery: creating a picture in the reader's
mind by using words that appeal to the
senses.
- Visual imagery
- Auditory imagery
- Kinesthetic imagery
Literary Techniques
- Point of View
- Figurative Language
- Histo-biographical Approach
Historical-Biographical Approach
- approaches the artistic work as
chiefly a reflection of its author's
life and times or the life and times
of the characters in the work.
Padre Faura Witnesses the Execution of
Rizal by Danton Remoto, PhD
Creative Representation of the Literary
Text
a. Blog (Weblog)
b. Mind Mapping
c. Mobile Phone Text Tula
d. Slide Show Presentation
e. Tag Cloud
f. Video