NATION - a named human population occupying an historic territory and sharing common myths (SMITH 2003)
NATION - a human group conscious of forming a community, sharing a common culture, having a common past and common project for the future (GUIBERNAU 1997)
NATIONALISM - a condition of mind, feeling, or sentiment of a group of people, professing a literature in which the aspirations of the nation have been expressed
Theories of Nationalism
PRIMORDIALISM
MODERNITY THEORY OF NATIONALISM
CONSTRUCTIVISM
PRIMORDIALISM - the national identity can be reinforced by the existing and deeo rooted features of a group of people
MODERNITY THEORY OF NATIONALISM - national identity is a product of modern conditions and shaped by modernity as gleaned on the events of capitalism and industrialization
CONSTRUCTIVISM - nationalism is socially constructed and imagined by people who identify themselves in a group
REPUBLIC ACT NO 1425 - an act to include in the curricula of all public and private schools, colleges and universities courses on the life works and writings of Rizal
REPUBLIC ACT NO 1425 was approved by President Ramon Magsaysay on June 12, 1956
R.A. 1425 SECTION1 - all his works shall be included in the curricula of all schools
R.A 1425 SECTION 2 - it shall be obligatory to all schools to keep in their libraries and adequate number of copies of the original editions of Rizal works
R.A 1425 SECTION 3 - there shall be translations of the writings of Rizal into English and Tagalog
R.A 1425 SECTION 4 - prohibiting the discussions of religious doctrines by public school teachers and other people engaged in public school
R.A 1425 SECTION 5 - the sum of 300k pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any fund to carry put this act
R.A 1425 SECTION 6 - this act shall take effect upon approval. Approved
Jose Rizal and The Invention of National Literature - by Resil Mojares
The society is the subject of literature and literature is the story about the society
Literature is the mirror of a society. Thus, it is an indespensable part of national heritage
Nationalliterature ad national heritage is a tool in the formation of nationalism and patriotism
Miguel De Cervantes - a Spanish writer who created Don Quixote in the early 1600s
Miguel De Cervatnes - a poet soldier
Don Quixote became the world‘s first best seller and was eventually translated into more than 60 different languages
The lesson from Don Quixote - There is value in all people regardless of their social standing
ElConsejodelosDioses (The Council of the Gods) by Jose Rizal is an ALLEGORICAL play
El Consejo de los Dioses won the first prize award in 1881-1881 literary contest COMMEMOTATING THE DEATH OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
4 Gods in El Consejo de los Dioses
Juno
Jupiter
Minerva
Venus
Marcha Real is played and a second curtain opens, revealing sn illuminated bust of Cervantes being crowned
Graciano Lopez Jaena - first editor-in-chief of the La Solidaridad which is founded in Spain
Jose Rizal was the first one to attempt to write a national historybthat woulf disengage the country from being treated as a mere appendage to Spain
SucesosdelasIslasFilipinas still stands as the first attempt by a Filipino to rehearse a national history of the Philippines
Why did Rizal abandon Makamisa?
he may have thought that it was a novel to be written in another time and perhaps by writes other than himself
Propaganda Movement - a peaceful crusa or campaign for reforms was done by the means of pen and tongue to pressure the Spanish government
when the illustrafos fid not succeed in easing the suffering of the Filipinos but from this group arose another faction called
Intelligentsia
Were patriots whi waged their movement by means of tongue ato expose the defects of Spanish rule in the Philippines
PROPAGANDIST
Marcelo H. Del Pilar - a lawyer and journalist who write anti friars pamphlets
Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo - masters of brush or painters
Pedro Paterno - a lawyer and man of letters
Antonio Luna - a pharma and essayist
Pedro Serrano Laktaw - tutor of Prince Alfonso de Bourton or the king of Spain