(1946-1985)

PHILIPPINE LITERATURE UNDER THE REPUBLIC

Prepared by:

Cherry Mae M. Cajeras BSA-2

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Alberto Florentino

Kerima Polotan- Tuvera

Macario Penida

Genoveva Edroza Matute

Lazaro Francisco

Amado Hernandez

Alejandro Abadilla

Emmanuel Torres

PLAY-WRIGHTAlberto

Florentino

F NEL O R OT I N

Alberto S. Florentino is the author and playwright of the famed " The

World is an Apple". The themes that he usually tackles

about deals with everyday scenarios of a commoner's life.

He usually portrays the struggles of Filipinos.

The World Is An Apple and Other Prize Plays(1959)

It contains Florentino’s most popular and characteristics

plays.

His work:

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THEME: Anachronism

Kerima Polotan-Tuvera

Prose Stylist

Kerima Polotan-Tuvera (December 16, 1925 –

August 19, 2011) was a Filipino author. She was a renowned and highly respected

fictionist, essayist, and journalists, with her

works having received among the highest

literary distinctions of the Philippines.

Stories (1968)- it contained some very poignant stories about women and their research for self-image that a male-dominated society would deny them.

Her work:Her background:

Fictionist:

Macario Penida

25 Pinakama-bubuting Maikling kuwento ng

Taong 19431912-1950

His background: His work:

Macario Pineda was a Philippine writer known for his short stories,

"Suyuan the pond.“

He is a Tagalog fictionist who

excelled in the authentic evocation

of the Philippine Countryside.

25Pinakamabubuting Maikling Kuwento ng

Taong 1943- it is a collection of short stories

produced under Japanese

sponsorship during the war

years.

Fictionist:

Genoveva Edroza-Matute

Ako’y Iisang Tinig

Genoveva(1915- )

Ako’y Iisang Tinig(1662)

It was a collection of stories that demonstrated her craftsman like handling of structure to projecting the bucket.

Genoveva Edroza-Matute

(January 3, 1915 – March 21,

2009) was a Filipino author.

In 1951, she was the recipient

of the first ever Palanca

Award for Short Story in

Filipino, for her short story

"Kuwento ni Mabuti", which

has been cited as the most

anthologized Tagalog

language short-story.

Lazaro Fransisco

Novels:

Bayang Nagpatiwakal

Ilaw sa Hilaga

Maganda Pa Ang Daigdig

Daluyong

Lazaro Francisco

Lazaro Francisco (1898-1980) is 2009

Philippine National Artist for Filipino

Literature.

His novels tackled romance, class

tensions, tenancy issues and agrarian

unrest.

He is the leading Filipino finest novelist

since the beginning of 20th century until

AMA(1920)

(1808-1980)

Bayang

Nagpatiwakal

(1932)

Ilaw Sa Hilaga (1948)

It turned

Francisco’s

analytical powers

on alien control of

Philippine

economy, a direct

confrontation with

the central

problem of the

colonized Filipino

people.

It is an allegory of the Philippines under the economic domination of foreign business.

Daluyong (1962) and Maganda pa ang Daigdig (1956)

In these two novels, Francisco returned to the world of his early novel AMA, and took another

look at the agrarian unrest and the vexing problem of

land reform which had flared up in the late

1940’s.

THEME:

Agrarian Unrest

Amado V. Hernandez

Mga Ibong Mandaragit

Isang

Dipang

Langit

Luha Ng Buwaya

Bayang Malaya

Banaag at Sikat

Novels:

Amado Hernandez (1903-1970) Amado Vera Hernandez, commonly known as Amado V. Hernandez (September 13, 1903–March 24, 1970), was a Filipino writer and labor leader who was known for his criticism of social injustices in the Philippines and was later imprisoned for his involvement in the communist movement.

He wrote two novels that reflected the political and economic troubles of the 1950’s.

Luha Ng

Buwaya(1962)

It depicted the plight of the

peasantry and how exploitation by the landlords taught them to

organize in order to fight for

their rights.

THEME: Exploitation

Isang Dipang Langit

(1961)

It bears the mark of romanticism

traceable to Balagtas and

the stamp of social concern deriving from Rizal and other poets.

THEME:

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ANTICSM

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CONCERN

BANAAG AT SIKAT

A novel that fails to

give artistic shape to

the complex

experience it wishes

to comprehend.

Bayang Malaya (1969)

It is a long narrative poem

about a crusading newspaperman who becomes a

guerilla fighter, a labor leader and then a political

prisoner.

Mga Ibong Mandaragit(1960)

Whose flawed craftsmanship fails to douse its fiery protest against

domination of the Philippines by

American industrialists,

morally bankrupt religious leaders and corrupt bureaucrats.

Alejandro Abadilla

Ako Ang Daigdig

Piniling Mga Tula Ni AGAPOET

Tagalog

Alejandro Abadilla(1904)

Alejandro G. Abadilla (March 10, 1906–August 26, 1969), commonly known as AGA, was a Filipino poet, essayist and

fiction writer. Critic Pedro Ricarte referred to Abadilla as the father of modern

Philippine poetry, and was known for challenging established forms and

literature's "excessive romanticism and emphasis on rime and meter“.

He is a young poet in 1940 by what he perceived to be the emptiness of much of

the verse being written by his elders.

Ako Ang

Daigdig

(1920)

It signaled the

outbreak of a

revolt similar

to Villa’s in the

1920’s.

Piniling Mga Tula Ni AGA(1965)It crystallized Abadilla’s gospel regarding

society and individual.

Emmanuel Torres

Two books of

Poems

Angels And Fugitives

Shapes And Silence

English Poet

Emmanuel Torres(1931- )

Emmanuel Torres is a poet, art critic ,

professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Ateneo de Manila and curator of its art museum . He was born on April 29,1932 in Manila.

His openness has drawn into his poems social concern that skill and craft have elucidated and intensified.

Angels and Fugitives

(1966)

Fastidiously aesthetic poet,

tightlipped and respectable,

keeping personal anguish and

loneliness to himself.

Shapes of Silence(1972)

In this book, many poems are refreshingly loose and

released, giving notice that the poet had decided to “hang loose” and open

himself to the social realities of the time.

References:

The Anthology of Philippine

Literature

By Lombera

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