LESSON 1: Philippine Literary Timeline

HUM111 | 12 ABM | Midterms SEM 1 | SY 2023-24

★ Ilustrados (intellectual indios)

PRECOLONIAL started calling for reforms,

★ – to 1564 equality, improvement

★ longest period in the timeline Themes:

Themes: ★ love for country

★ oral tradition ★ inflamed emotions and fiery

★ revolves around the creation of rhetoric on the account of

the world, community, the achieving freedom from the

Philippines, life shackles of tyranny

Literary Works: Literary Works:

★ tales, songs, riddles, proverbs, ★ political essays and novels,

myths, legends, fables, epics revolutionary literature

COLONIAL AMERICAN COLONIZATION

★ 1910 – 1930, 1920 – 1945

SPANISH COLONIZATION
★ Philippines was sold to
★ 1565 – 1863 Americans by Spaniards; PH lost
★ led to undermining native oral in the PH-USA War
tradition
Themes:
Themes: ★ literature in the 3 languages
★ religious themes due to the flourished (english, filipino,
Christianization of the spanish)
Philippines by the Spaniards ★ period of apprenticeship and
emergence
Literary Works:
★ Doctrina Christiana, Pasyon, Literary Works:
Senakulo, Awit, Korido, ★ poetry, short story, publication,
Moro-Moro drama

PROPAGANDA/REVOLUTIONARY JAPANESE COLONIZATION

★ 1864 – 1896

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LESSON 1: Philippine Literary Timeline
HUM111 | 12 ABM | Midterms SEM 1 | SY 2023-24

★ 1942 – 1944
★ Philippine literature in the
English language and the
development of Philippine
literature was interrupted due
to the Japanese-American war
21ST CENTURY LITERATURE
★ focus of education and culture
was on problems of national
identity, re-orientations,
renewed vigor

Themes: ★ nothing much has changed;

★ writing in Filipino since English Filipino writers continue to show

was banned dynamism and innovation

★ nationalism, life in province Themes:

Literary Works: ★ inspiration and ideas from

★ haiku, tanaga, Filipino drama previous writers

★ many works tackles literature of
the past in order to make sense
POST-COLONIAL
of the present

LATE 20TH CENTURY (MARTIAL LAW) Literary Works:

★ poetry, fiction works, theses,

★ many publications and mass games, comics

media outlets were shut down

★ Filipino writers explored
socio-political realities
★ underground press

Themes:
★ exploitation and injustice

Literary Works:
★ protest (revolutionary)
literature, proletarian, prison,
circumvention

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LESSON 2: Literary Themes and Genres
HUM111 | 12 ABM | Midterms SEM 1 | SY 2023-24

differently for different

THEME
audiences

1. Identity
9. Migration and Diaspora
– intersection of cultures and
– lives of immigrants and
vocal discussions of women’s
difficulties they encounter
and LGBTQIA+ rights
abroad such as hostility, racism,

2. Social Evils and nostalgia

– war, terrorism, racial

discrimination, and other GENRES

misdoings in society
Conventional Literary Genres:
3. Catastrophe
A. Fiction – created from
– natural or man-made
imagination (though can be
catastrophe
based on true story)
4. Personalization B. Non-fiction – based on facts
– personal experience told in and author’s opinion on a
first person subject; to inform and persuade
C. Poetry – awareness of
5. Perils of Technology
experience expressed through
– downside of technology
meaning, sound, and rhythmic
6. Fracturing language to evoke an emotional
– different perspectives and response; employ meter and
angles of a certain scenario rhyme
D. Prose – composed freely
7. Effects of Capitalism
E. Drama – prose or verse in
– political and economic system
dialogue; story involving conflict,
of a business, industry, and a
acted on a stage (play)
nation
21st Century Literary Genres (New
8. History and Memory
Forms of Fiction):
– look back on history and how
history has been depicted 1. Flash Fiction

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LESSON 2: Literary Themes and Genres
HUM111 | 12 ABM | Midterms SEM 1 | SY 2023-24

– category of short story that 7. Slam Poetry

limits the author to a word count – requires skill; original and
of 1,000 or less recited in front of people and
A. Six-word Story – 6 words should tug at the heart of the
B. Dribble – 50 words listener
C. Drabble – 100 words
8. Chat Fiction
D. Sudden Fiction – 750 words
– stories that unfold in SMS
E. Nano-Fiction/Twitterature
format
– 280 characters
9. Textula
2. Young Adult Fiction
– short poems sent as text
– aimed at kids aged 12-18;
message or post in the internet
tackles personal development
10. Fan Fiction (FanFic)
3. Speculative Fiction
– taking the story or characters
– strays strongly away from
of a certain piece of work and
reality and deals with
creating a story of one’s own
supernatural or technologies
based on it
that do not exist irl
11. Flip Top
4. Comic Books or Graphic Fiction
– free style on-the-spot rap
– books with illustrations; told
battle that uses creativity and
with a mixture of words and
wit in answering the opponent
pictures

5. Chick Lit
– heroine narratives; modern
woman and her experiences
with friendship, love, workplace,
etc.

6. Popular Fiction
– based on wattpad; enjoyed by
current readers and have been
published recently