Q3 W1 - The overview of the Philippine literature

• Fantasy is a modern work written by an author, often borrowing motifs from epics, myths, and legends.
• Fairy tale is set in mythic time, detached from history.
• Drama was usually used in the American period to degrade the Spanish rule and to immortalize the heroism of the men who fought under the Katipunan.
• Jose Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere” was a reaction to our experience of colonial oppression during the Spanish occupation.
• Fantasy is often compared to the fairy tale that contains elements of magic and supernatural, which is a type of folktale.
• Epics, myths, legends, folktales, proverbs, and riddles are not technically “literature,” but oral lore.
• The early writings in English during the American period were characterized by melodrama, unreal language, and unsubtle emphasis on local color.
• Oral lore/Oral tradition is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
• In the American period, poetry followed the style of the old, but had contents that ranged from free writing to societal concerns under the Americans.
• During the Spanish period, Filipinos wrote imitated English and American models, producing poems that were amateurish and mushy.
• Characteristics of Philippine literature evolved in relation to our historical experience.
• Although we can trace the emergence of fantasy as a subgenre in short fiction, realism maintained its status as the dominant mode of presentation in Philippine fiction.
• The literature during the American period was considered as imitative of American models.
• The Philippines had a great leap in Education and Culture during the American period, with the use of English language alongside Filipino being practiced and the Philippines Public School system being introduced, providing free public instruction to the Filipinos.
• Zarzuelas are musical comedies or melodramas that deal with the elemental passions of human beings and are probably one of the most famous forms of entertainment back in the Spanish era.
• Literatura is the Latin word for "writing formed with letters".
• The three literary periods in the Philippines are the American Period from 1900-1942, the Spanish Period from 1521-1898, and the Pre-Colonial Period from BC-1564.
• The Pre-Colonial Period in Philippine literature is characterized by oral traditions, crude ideology and phraseology, and themes of life, adventure, and horror.
• Common types of folk tales include fairy tales, fables, trickster tales, and 'why' stories.
• The Spanish Period in Philippine literature has two distinct classifications: religious and secular, and introduced Spanish as the medium of communication.
• In contemporary English, secular is primarily used to distinguish something (such as an attitude, belief, or position) that is not specifically religious or sectarian in nature (for example, music with no religious connection or affiliation might be described as "secular").
• The Spanish Period in Philippine literature also saw the introduction of literary forms such as the Corrido, an epic narrative about saints, the Awit, a chivalric poem about a hero, and the Pasyon, a narrative poem about the life of Jesus Christ.
• The Senakulo (or cenaculo) is a staged re-enactment of Christ's passion and death.
• Duplo or Karagatan are native dramas that are connected to Catholic mourning rituals and harvest celebrations.