Originality as Vengeance in Philippine Literature by Lucila V. Hosillos

Excerpt from the Preface:"...This book is an indispensable reference on the creation of Philippine literature and its contribution to the Filipino cultural achievement. The book shows that the Filipino writer has not been passive under the impact of foreign influences, but that he transmuted such elements into works original in terms of his own personal experiences and social realities. Shown in this study are the social processes that have conditioned the creation of poems in vernacular, a novel in Spanish, the short story in English, and a play in the national language. It presents norms, values and aesthetics of individual literary works through percipient reading of the text, untying its structural and thematic interrelations in their contexts....The early poems in Hiligaynon, Francisco Batazar's Florante at Laura, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere, Manuel E. Arguilla's short stories, and PETA's Dupluhang Bayan are crucial in the history of Philippine literature. They were created at various stages of literary development, reflecting contact points, twists and turns in the Philippine historical process when the influx of foreign elements deflected it and changed its constituent culture as to modify Filipino life and society..."

Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Day Publishers (January 1, 1984)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 163 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9711001322
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9711001322