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PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

UNDER AMERICAN AND


JAPANESE COLONIAL
PERIOD
AMERICAN PERIOD
TREATY OF PARIS
• APRIL 11, 1899- AN AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED BY JOHN
HAY, THE US SECRETARY OF STATE.
• THE SPANISH LANGUAGE IS STILL DOMINANT AMONG
FILIPINOS.
• EDUCATION WAS FISRT HEADED BY AMERICAN
SOLDIERS.
• 600 TEACHERS WHO ARRIVED ONBOARD THE SHIP
USS.
• TAGALOG DRAMA ALSO TRANSFORMED.
• SARSWELA, A MUSICAL FAMOUS DURING THE 1920s UP
TO THE 1930s, LATER BECAME ENGLISH BY FILIPINO
PLAYWRIGHTS.
• SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS ALSO EMERGED DURING THIS
PERIOD.
• FAMOUS STORIES IN ENGLISH EMERGED LIKE “DEAD
STARS”, FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH”
• COMICS STARTED APPEARING ON MAGAZINES AS A
SERIS LIKE SI KIKO AT ANGGE.
JAPANESE PERIOD
• DURING WORLD WAR II, THE PHILIPPINES WERE
COLONIZED BY JAPANESE FROM 1941 TO 1945.
• MACARTHUR LEFT A PROMISE TO THE FILIPINO PEOPLE.
“I SHALL RETURN”.
• JAPANESE ORDERED THAT THE MISA DE GALLO BE
SUSPENDED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON CHRISTMAS OF
1941.
• UNDER JAPANESE RULE CAME THE FALL OF BATAAN
AND THE DEATH MARCH.
• MICKEY MOUSE MONEY WERE USED AT THIS PERIOD.
ACTIVITY

• WHAT ARE THE CERTAIN INFLUENCES YOUR FAMILY HAS FROM


AMERICANS AND JAPANESE?
• HUKBALAHAP WAS A GROUP OF FILIPINOS WHO FOUGHT
AGAINST JAPANESE.
• MAKAPILI, FILIPINO SPIES.
• 1944, MACARTHUR CAME BACK IN LEYTE FOUGHT FOR OUR
COUNTRY.
• JAPAN DAY (V-J, DAY 1945) WAS DECLARED ON AUGUST 15, 1945.
• INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC ON JULY 4,
1946.
• SEEING DAWN, A NOVEL WRITTEN BY STEVEN JAVELLANA (1974).

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