Propaganda Period

• Propaganda period is a turning point in our Philippine literary

  journey. This period marked the beginning of the awakening of our sense of nationalism
• Ilustrados - people who are capableof speaking Spanish
• Propaganda period was a period of Philippine

  history and literature when the “Ilustrados”

  (intellectual indios) started calling for reforms.
• REFORMS

  1. To get equal treatment for the Filipinos and the

  Spaniards under the law.

  2. To make the Philippines a province of Spain

  3. To restore Filipino representation in the Spanish

  Cortes

  4. To “Filipinize” the parishes

  5. To give the Filipinos freedom of speech, of the

  press, assembly and for redress of grievances.
• JOSE RIZAL (THE NATIONAL HERO) - Pen names include Dimasalang, Laong-Laan and P. Jacinto.

  • Noli Me Tangere – the novel that exposed the

  evils in society. (Touch me Not)

  • El Filibusterismo – the sequel of Noli which

  exposed the evils in the government and in

  the church.

  • Mi Ultimo Adios – a poem written by Rizal in

  his prison cell in Fort Bonifacio.

  • Sobre La Indolencia de los Filipinos (On the Indolence
  • of the Filipinos) – an essay defending the Filipinos on the accusation of laziness of the Filipinos
• MARCELO H. DEL PILAR (THE CONSUMMATE JOURNALIST/PROPAGANDIST) - Pen names were Plaridel, Pupdoh, Piping Dilat, and Dolores Manapat.

  • He established Diariong Tagalog where he exposed the evils of Spanish Government.
  • He succeeded Lopez-Jaena as editor of La Solidaridad
  • Some of his works are Kaingat Kayo, Dasalaan at Tocsohan, at ang Cadaquilaan ng Dios
• GRACIANO LOPEZ-JAENA (THE GREATEST ORATOR) - La Solidaridad, as its 1st Editor-in-Chief.

  • Some of his works are Ang Fray Botod, Everything is Hambug, Sa mga Pilipino, at En honor del Presidente Morayta de la Associacion Hispano Filipino
• ANTONIO LUNA (THE PHARMACIST, WRITER AND GENERAL) - His pen name was Tagailog

  • Some of his works are Noche Buena (Christmas Eve), Se devierten (How they Diverted Themselves), La Tertulia Filipina (A Filipino Conference or Feast), La Casa de Huespedes (The Landlady’s House)
• La Solidaridad - that espoused the relatively liberal views of the Filipino Propaganda Movement, which sought reform in the Spanish colony of the Philippines
• MARIANO PONCE (THE SECRETARY) - Pen names were Tikbalang, Naning and Kalipulako

  • Some of his works are Ang Alamat ng Bulacan (Legend of Bulacan), Pagpugot kay Longinos (The Beheading of Longinus)
• Pedro Paterno - He was the first Filipino writer who escaped

  censorship of the press.

  
  

  Some of his works are A Mi Madre (To my Mother), Sampaguita y Poesias Varias (Sampaguitas and

  Varied Poems)
• Ninay -the first social novel in Spanish written by a Filipino.
• Jose Maria Panganiban - known as JOMAPA

  • He is known for his photographic mind
  • Some of his works are Ang Lupang Tinubuan at Ang aking buhay