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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF PHILIPPINE LITERATURE - Coggle Diagram
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD (-BC to 1564)
CHARACTERISTICS
based on oral traditions
based on reflecting daily activities
represented the ethos of the people
LITERARY FORMS
Oral literature
Folk songs
Folk Tales
Epics
SPANISH COLONIZATION PERIOD
CHARACTERISTICS
religious and secular
Spanish was the medium of communication
Religion became an important theme
LITERARY FORMS
Religious Literature
Pasyon
Senakulo
Secular
Awit
Korido
Prose Narratives
AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD (1910-1945)
Period of Apprenticeship(1910-1930)
Poems written were amateurish and mushy
Philippine literature reflected the ethos
of its people under a new role
social realism as the main theme
short stories
Novels
Period of Emergence(1920-1930)
short stories
NATIONALISTIC/PROPAGANDA AND REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD (1864-1896)
CHARACTERISTICS
nationalism
Tagalog language
addressed the masses instead of the "intelligentsia"
LITERARY FORMS
Propaganda Literature
Revolutionary Literature
JAPANESE OCCUPATION (1942-1960)
Bountiful harvest in poetry, fiction, drama and essay
Filipino writers mastered English
Tagalog poets wrote in simple language and free verse
CONTEMPORARY / MODERN PERIOD (1960-Present)
Martial law repressed
Theater used as a way for protest
dynamism innovation
usage of symbolism and allegories