Literature A way to interrogate history and to reveal
marginal voices to compete with the authoritative
versions
Preludes
Tries to shift perspectives that have come from
written by Daryll Delgado received ideologies that have been traditionally
A story about gender inequality and infidelity depicted by history and literature
Laws in the Philippines are patriarchal in nature Tries to destabilize “received notions of both
(favor man over women) history and fiction” and directly “confront the past
When a woman is guilty of adultery, she commits literature – and of historiography…”
a crime; for a man, the crime is not adultery but Done to make readers think about the validity of
concubinage history
Wonders about the different voices that have not
Characters: been heard and allow these voices to speak
through literature
1. Nenita
The wife The Valley of Amazement
Killed her husband with the purple leaves
(found only in Mt. Banahaw) written by Amy Tan
2. The Husband a story about a girl who has been true to herself
3. The Herbalista (self-actualization) despite of her condition
Friend of Nenita
Charcters:
Recommended the purple leaves to Nenita
4. Grandson
1. Lulu
5. Judge
the main character
Celebrating his death anniversary
self-actualization: at the age of 8 or her
6. Judge’s Wife
childhood
Rumored mistress of Nenita’s husband
she wanted to be a pianist
2. Grandmother
Introduction to 21st Century World Literature
Recommended to amputate the “extra
Significance: to discover different cultures and pinky”
perspective 3. Mother and Father
Three ways it has been seen: as an 4. Mr. Maubert
established body of classics, as an evolving canon Old family friend
of masterpieces, as multiple windows of the world Piano teacher
Historiographic metafiction, world Englishes, post- Convinced her parents to turn her unusual
colonialism, and feminism hand into ordinary ones
A former concert pianist
A Low Art
21st Century Literature
written by Margaret Atwood
Retelling of The Odyssey from Penelope’s new literary works created within the last decade
perspective
written by contemporary authors
“it’s a low art” =Tale telling
A historiographic metafiction
deals with current themes/issues and reflects a
Low art = are often associated with women and
technological culture
femininity
often breaks traditional writing rules
Penelope
the main character
Odysseus’ wife BLOG (Web Blog)
Historiographic Metafiction a Web site on which someone writes about
personal opinions, activities, and experiences.
Elaborated by Linda Hutcheon – she traces how
both history and literature were once considered
branches of the same tree of learning which
sought to “interpret experience, for the purpose of Instant messaging (IM)
guiding and elevating man”
a type of online chat which offers real-time text fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity.
transmission over the Internet. Also known as micro fiction
Brief or small stories
Illustrated Novels
Text tula
Story through text and illustrated images
mobile phone poetry, using short traditional
Generally, 50% of the narrative is presented formal verses like tanaga which has a 7777
without words. syllable count with rhyme scheme aabb, abab,
abba.
The reader must interpret the images in order to
comprehend the complete story. KURAKOT
Inumit na salapi
Examples: Carlo Vergara’s “Zsazsa Zaturnnah sa Walang makapagsabi
Kalakhang Maynila” Kahit na piping saksi
Naitago na kasi.
Digi-Fiction
Hyper-poetry
a literary experience that combines three media:
book, movie/video, and Internet website. digital poetry that uses links using hypertext
mark-up. It is a very visual form, and is related to
In order to get the full story, students must
hypertext fiction and visual arts.
engage in navigation, reading, viewing, in all three
formats. Speculative Fiction
Hyperlinks an umbrella term which encompasses the more
fantastical fiction genre.
Graphic Novel
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird fiction,
a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to
supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and
the reader using comic form.
dystopian fiction, apocalyptic fiction, alternate history,
the term is employed in a broad manner, etc
encompassing non-fiction works and thematically
linked short stories as well as fictional stories
across a number of genres.
Manga
the Japanese word for comics.
It is used in the English-speaking world as a
generic term for all comic books and graphic
novels originally published in Japan
Doodle Fiction
Drawings enhance the story, often adding
humorous elements that would be missing if the
illustrations were omitted.
Blog, E-mail, and IM Novels
Text-Talk Novels Blog, e-mail, & IM format
narratives - Stories told almost completely in
dialogue simulating social network exchanges.
Chick lit
addresses issues of modern womanhood, often
humorously and light-heartedly.
Flash Fiction
