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Nick Joaquin, National Artist of the Philippines for Literature. The American occupation and colonization of the Philippines led to the rise of "free verse" poetry, prose, and other genres. English became a common language for Filipino writers, with the first English novel written by a Filipino being the Child of Sorrow (1921).
Philippine literature in English has its roots in the efforts of the United States, then engaged in a war with Filipino nationalist forces at the end of the 19th century. By 1901, public education was institutionalized in the Philippines , with English serving as the medium of instruction.
Leona Josefa Florentino (19 April 1849 – 4 October 1884) was a Filipina foundational poet, [1] dramatist, satirist, and playwright who wrote and poetically spoke in Ilocano, her mother tongue, and Spanish, the lingua franca of her era.
Marcelino M. Navarra (June 2, 1914 – March 28, 1984) was a Filipino Visayan editor, poet, and writer from Cebu, Philippines.He was regarded as the father of modern Cebuano short story for his use of realism and depictions of fictionalized version of his hometown, barrio Tuyom in Carcar, Cebu.
The life of a Philippine epic hero usually follows a pattern, [1]: xvii similar to the Hero's journey: He is born of unusual circumstances. He undergoes miraculous growth into manhood and is possessed of a restlessness to set out on adventures. He lives a life of action and adventure, in the course of which he displays his heroic qualities.
Reyes's use of the phrase postmodern hero or postmodern text to describe ZsaZsa Zaturnnah the superheroine and graphic novel was further explained by Emilou Lindsay Mata Mendoza and Irene Villarin Gonzaga in their Visual Literacy and Popular Culture in the Philippine Literature Classroom: Teaching Filipino Literature through the Graphic Novel ...
Timawa (Free Person/Slave) by Agustin Fabian, 1953. Luha ng Buwaya by Amado V. Hernandez, 1963. Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (In the Claws of Brightness) by Edgardo M. Reyes, 1966–1967. Dekada '70 by Lualhati Bautista, 1983.
The awit (Tagalog for "song" [1]) is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of 12-syllable quatrains.It follows the pattern of rhyming stanzas [which?] established in the Philippine epic Pasyon.