The document summarizes Filipino literature from 1945-1960, known as the Liberation Period. Some key characteristics included Filipino writers mastering diverse English literary techniques and bountiful harvests of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. Literary "giants" emerged who focused on themes of identity, rural life, and conditions. Example novel works discussed were Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio about love and marriage among ethnic people, Children of the City by Amadis Ma Guerrero about an abandoned child in Manila streets, and The Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos about a man's homesickness as an expatriate.
The document summarizes Filipino literature from 1945-1960, known as the Liberation Period. Some key characteristics included Filipino writers mastering diverse English literary techniques and bountiful harvests of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. Literary "giants" emerged who focused on themes of identity, rural life, and conditions. Example novel works discussed were Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio about love and marriage among ethnic people, Children of the City by Amadis Ma Guerrero about an abandoned child in Manila streets, and The Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos about a man's homesickness as an expatriate.
The document summarizes Filipino literature from 1945-1960, known as the Liberation Period. Some key characteristics included Filipino writers mastering diverse English literary techniques and bountiful harvests of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. Literary "giants" emerged who focused on themes of identity, rural life, and conditions. Example novel works discussed were Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio about love and marriage among ethnic people, Children of the City by Amadis Ma Guerrero about an abandoned child in Manila streets, and The Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos about a man's homesickness as an expatriate.
The document summarizes Filipino literature from 1945-1960, known as the Liberation Period. Some key characteristics included Filipino writers mastering diverse English literary techniques and bountiful harvests of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. Literary "giants" emerged who focused on themes of identity, rural life, and conditions. Example novel works discussed were Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio about love and marriage among ethnic people, Children of the City by Amadis Ma Guerrero about an abandoned child in Manila streets, and The Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos about a man's homesickness as an expatriate.
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Liberatio Period n 1945-1960 What we'll discuss • Characteristics • Literature • Novel works “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.” Charles Dickens Characteristi • Filipino writers mastered English csdiverse literary techniques. and familianized themselves with
• Bountiful harvest in poetry, fiction,
drama and essay. • Journalistic and literary criticism emerged Literature Literary "giants" appeared like Nick Joaquin, NVM Gonzales, Bienvenido Santos, and Gilda Cordero Fernando among others. Literary guilds and awards were established to honor outstanding works C ommon themes focused on search for identity, homesickness, rural life and conditions in rural community. Prose and Poems You Lovely Peoples Ningning Nick Joaquin Bienvenido Gilda Cordero Santos Novel Works 1.Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio which dwells on love and marriage among local ethnic people. This short story takes place a long time ago and is about two people and love. Awiyao is deeply in love with his wife, but must marry someone else so that he can have a son to carry on his name. Awiyao personally invites his wife, Lumnay, to join him in a traditional Novel Works 2. Children of the City by Amadis Ma Guerrero which centers on an abandoned child in the streets of Manila. The story focuses on the events that happen in Victor’s life. At a young age, he loses his father, is left by his mother, and has to work as a newsboy to Novel Works 3. The Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos which talks about homesickness of an expatriate. His short story "The Day The Dancers Came" portrays a man's struggle for belongingness in a place where he thought he would finally have a good life. It focuses on how Fil, a Filipino migrant in America, tries to be optimistic Thank You for listening!
