Philippine Literature

• Philippine Literature-

  Includes the legends of prehistory and the colonial legacy of the Philippines which are written in both indigenous and Hispanic languages
• Successos Felices 1937- the first news publication
• Doctrina Christiana (1593) - The first book of the Catholic Church to be printed in the Philippines
• Philippine Literature in English -

  Has its roots from

  the efforts of the

  United States, then

  engaged in a war

  with Filipino

  nationalist forces at

  the end 19th century
• 1901- Public Education was institutionalized
• Thomasites as first teachers
• The Manila Times- first English newspaper in the Philippines,