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Rizal: Hero, Writer, and Myth

The document discusses two popular views of Jose Rizal: the popular view sees him as a renowned political writer and intellectual who helped spark Philippine nationalism in the late 19th century, while the Rizalistas view sees him as a Christ-like savior figure endowed with mythic powers who continues to guide the Philippines spiritually. Both views recognize Rizal as a writer, patriot, and nationalist hero who played a key role in the Ilustrado movement.

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Rizal: Hero, Writer, and Myth

The document discusses two popular views of Jose Rizal: the popular view sees him as a renowned political writer and intellectual who helped spark Philippine nationalism in the late 19th century, while the Rizalistas view sees him as a Christ-like savior figure endowed with mythic powers who continues to guide the Philippines spiritually. Both views recognize Rizal as a writer, patriot, and nationalist hero who played a key role in the Ilustrado movement.

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Popular View on Jose Rizal:

● Rizal is more renowned for his political writings and role as a public intellectual in the
first wave of Philippine nationalism in the 1870s
● Rizal the novelist
● Rizal's keen social intelligence and command over the intellectual currents of his time.
● Writing in Spanish, he cast off the intellectual hegemony of Spain in the Philippines with
every appearance of effortlessness.
● Rizal's novels are a dark
● Rizal as a national hero whose worship was obligatory
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Rizalistas View on Rizal:


● A Filipino Christ. A Filipino savior
● Mythic Rizal came to be endowed with the characteristic powers of Filipino shamans:
transformation of physical form at will, invincibility to bullets, and healing power.
● The urban Ilustrado, or the martyred Christ-figure
● Amang Doktor José Rizal (Father-Doctor).
● A quasi-divine dispenser of wisdom about the past and the future
● Amang Doktor was the distinctive form assumed for the Philippines by the Holy Spirit.
● Dr. José Rizal as a great patriot and soul whose legacy still guided the Philippines in
facing the uncertainties of an election and the approaching millennium.
● José Rizal appeared to serve as a kind of emblem establishing this diverse array of
individuals as a temporary community
● Myth
● Spirit

Similarities of the Two Views:


● The culture-hero of Tagalog literary romance
● Rizal as writer and a patriot
● Rizal the nationalist hero
● Ilustrado writer
● Hero
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