Literature Under U.S. Colonialism

Prepared by: Conejar, Kareen Joy E.

Submitted by : Ms. Jackielyn M. Hebia

Philippine literature during the American rule was influenced by two factors, first of which is, education. With the Americans providing free education, many were given the chance to study and English was used as the language of instruction. Unlike the Spanish, the foreigners were willing to teach their language to the Filipinos. Free education served as the stepping stone for others to improve their social status.

Early literary works in English showed styles of which is American. It can also be seen that writers who just started learning English cannot fully showcase their talent because of the lack of mastery of the language.

Writers during the American Period drew ideas from the Propaganda Movement and the Revolutionary Movement to encourage the Filipinos to continue to fight against the U.S. Colonialism. The demand for independence was supported by a campaign to make the Americans aware of the Filipino culture.

Literary Period 

Notable Authors and their Works

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Play Aurelio tolentino Kahapon ngayon at bukas Mena Pecson Crisologo Neneng o Pinagpalang kapangyarihan ng

Pag-ibig

Short StoryDeogracas S. Rosario Greta GarboManuel E. Arguilla A Son is bornMagdalena Jalandoni Si AnabellaMarcel navarro At ako’y inanodWilfredo Ma. Guerrero Wanted : A Chaperon

NovelFautino Aguilar Kay pait ng pamumuhay pinaglahuanCarlos Bulosan Two face of America

From America is in the heart

Poems

Cecilo Apostol Al heroe NactionalPedro Gatmaitan PinaglahuanBenigno ramos AsyendaJose corazon de Jesus Kamay ng berhin

SalampiGardeopatra Quijano Kon/KungEvangeline Guerrero Though you Tell Me Not

Play

Aurellio Tolentino

Was A Filipino dramatist and playwright.

Born in Santo Christo, Guagua Pampanga.

Kahaon ngayon at Bukas

Mena Pecso Crisologo

A Ilocano literature contributed . Sha was a dramatist,and novalist.

Literary historians and critics of Literature in the regions have yet established. under U.S. Colonial rule who Inevitably figure in research outputs and studies.

Neneng o Pinagpalang kapangyarihan ng Pag-ibig

Short Story

Marcel Navarra

She was a Short story writter . At Ako’y

inianod

Wilfred Ma. guerrero

Was a Filipino playwright, Teacher and theater artist.

Ha has written well over a hundred plays, 41 of which have been published.

His published plays have either been broadcast over the radio or staged in various parts of the Philippines.

Wanted : A Chaperon

Deogracias S. Rosario

Greta GarboHe was a writer using English who imbibed literary influences coming into Philippine Literature through the school.

Father of the “Tagalog Short Story ’’.Tagalog writers uninitiated the arc of the story.

Manuel Arguilla

A Son is born

Were the finest short story writers of their time, and between of two of them, Were in (1910- 1944).

A writers Club And editor of the University ;s Literary Apprentice.

Magdalena

Jalandoni

Si Anabella

She was a

Novelist and

Poet.

She was one of

the author during the U.S.

Colonial rule.

Poems

Jose Corazon de

Jesus (1

894-

1932)

Kamay Ng Birhen

He was a Poet and a playwright.Was born Inn Manila and In Santa Maria, Bulacan.

He also wrote lyrics for songs,One of them constancio de Guzman’s Bayan ko.

A Woman can make or

Unmake a man. A Woman can do wonders.

That the hands of a virgin have a power to transform even hardened criminals into good men.

SalapiMoney is like fire: an EXCELENT SERVANT, but a CRUEL MASTER

Money, the love of it, the lack of it.the things it can do for you, what you can do it with it, how to make it earn, that’s what makes some pepole’s go around.

- Bebe Lontoc

Lope K. Santos

He was a Filipino Tagalog language writer and former senator of the Philippines.

He nest known for his 1906 socialist novel. He also a native of Pasig.

Hinigop ng sugal

Evangeline guerrero

She was a poet, journalist in the Spanish language.

She was the eldest daughter of the “ Prince of the Filipino lyric Poetry “.

•Though You Tell Me not

Benigno Ramos

He was known as the Balagtasan poem.

Introduce social content, making the contestant proponents of specific philosophical/political positions.

Panulat

Gardeopata Quijano

As a young woman, she was inspired to be independent and not shy from every opportunity that women sparsely had at the time.

started writing when she was a teenager. She is a poet, a fictionist and an essayist. She wrote her poems, stories and essays in Cebuano.

“And if I were the wind,Oh, I’d tease the flowers,I’d scatter to all cornersThe fallen petals,So their fragrance would remain

A trail of scent for the poet.”

Kon /Kung

Cecilo Apostol

Cecilio Apóstol was a Filipino poet. His poems were once used to teach the Spanish language under the Republic Act No. 1881.

Cecilo Apostol

Al Heroe Nactional/ To The National Hero

Rizal the evolution and the perfidy of the American invaders.

He was the National theater excellent support , and he was also a poet.

.

Pedro Gatmaitan

He was a youthful poets.

The patriotic poems in the book range in tone playfully ironic to the oratorical and exhortative.

Pinaglahuan

Novel

Fautino Aguilar

He was a Social Novelist. A novel that gives a penetrating analysis of Philippine society at the beginning of the American rule.

Kay hirap ng pamumuhay panaglahuan

The discriminating choice of substantiating details , and sensitivity of a superior novelist.

Aguilar’s novel revolves around the rich girl Danding whose love for a factory clerk had to give way to her parent’s wish to marry her off to the business magnate Rojalde who would organizer in the American firm where he works.

Carlos Buloson Two face of America/ From

America is in the Heart

The American as in

the heart was a

painful record of

experience of a

Filipino who did not

find his American

dream.

He came face to face

with a side of America

that he had not been

told about in school.

A Filipino peasant

boy who had landed

in the U.S. at the

start of the Great

Depression.

References

Cynthia Lumbera. “Philippine Literature” A History and Analogy. Manila :National Bookstore, 1981.

Joaquin, Nick. “The Philippine as Sajonista,” Rediscovery , Cynthia Lumbera and Teresita G. Maceda. Manila Bookstore, 1981.

Renato Constantino, A Past Revisited ( Quezon City): Malaya Books, Inc;1966

Teodoro A. Agoncillo and Oscar Alfonso, A History of the Filipino People, Rev.ed. (Quezon City: Malaya Book, 1967)p.429.