THE AMERICAN

COLONIAL
LITERATURE
RICALYN A. PERLAS
INSTRUCTOR
NEW FREE VERSE (IN POETRY)
LITERARY
FORMS
MODERN SHORT STORY
INTRODUCED CRITICAL ESSAY
  FIRM ESTABLISHMENT OF ENGLISH AS THE
MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN ALL SCHOOLS.
THE  WITH LITERARY MODERNISM THAT
AMERICAN HIGHLIGHTED THE WRITER’S INDIVIDUALITY
INFLUENCE AND CULTIVATED CONSCIOUSNESS OF
CRAFT, SOMETIMES AT THE EXPENSE OF
SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
  JOSE GARCIA VILLA – USED FREE VERSE AND
ESPOUSED THE DICTUM, “ART FOR ART’S SAKE” TO
THE CHAGRIN OF OTHER WRITERS MORE
CONCERNED WITH THE UTILITARIAN ASPECT OF
LITERATURE.
 ANGELA MANALANG GLORIA – USED FREE VERSE
AND TALKED ABOUT ILLICIT LOVE AFFAIR IN HER
FREE VERSE POETRY.
 DESPITE THE THREAT OF CENSORSHIP BY THE NEW
DISPENSATION, MORE WRITERS TURNED UP
“SEDITIOUS” WORKS”.
 POPULAR WRITING IN THE NATIVE LANGUAGES
BLOOMED THROUGH WEEKLY OUTLETS LIKE
LIWAYWAY AND BISAYA.
  ALEJANDRO G. ABADILLA – ADVOCATED
MODERNISM IN POETRY.
MODERNISM  ABADILLA LATER INFLUENCED YOUNG
IN POETRY POETS WHO WROTE MODERN VERSES IN
THE 1960’S SUCH AS VIRGILIO ALMARIO,
PEDRO I. RICARTE AND ROLAND S. TINIO.
  PUBLISHED IN PHILIPPINE FREE PRESS, THE
COLLEGE FOLIO, AND THE PHILIPPINE
HERALD.
MODERN  PAZ MARQUEZ BENITEZ’S “DEAD STARS” –
SHORT PUBLISHED IN 1925, WAS THE FIRST
STORY SUCCESSFUL SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH
WRITTEN IN FILIPINO.
 OTHER SHORT STORY WRITERS – ARTURO B.
ROTOR AND MANUEL E. ARGUILLA.
  WRITERS IN THE VERNACULARS CONTINUED TO WRITE IN
PROVINCES – LOPE K. SANTOS, VALERIANO HERNANDEZ
PENA, AND PATRICIO MARIANO, WERE WRITING MINIMAL
NARRATIVES SIMILAR TO EARLY TAGALOG SHORT
FICTION CALLED DALI OR PASINGAW (SKETCH).
ALONGSIDE
 THE ROMANTIC TRADITION WAS FUSED WITH AMERICAN
THIS POP CULTURE OR EUROPEAN INFUENCES IN THE
ADAPTATIONS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ TARZAN BY
DEVELOPME F.P BOQUECOSA WHO ALSO PENNED “ANG PALAD NI
NT… PEPE” AFTER CHARLES DICKEN’S DAVID COPPERFIELD
EVEN AS THE REALIST TRADITION WAS KEPT ALIVE IN
THE NOVELS BY LOPE K. SANTOS AND FAUSTINO
AGUILAR.
  ESSAY IN ENGLISH BECAME A POTENT
MEDIUM FROM THE 1920’S UP UNTIL THE
PRESENT. THE ESSAYS RANGE FROM
ESSAY FORMAL TO HUMOROUS TO INFORMAL.
 LEADING ESSAYIST – CARLOS P. ROMULO,
JORGE BOCOBO, PURA SANTILLAN
CASTRENCE.
  WRITING CRITICISMS DEVELOPED DURING
THE AMERICAN PERIOD
 WRITERS – IGNACIO MANLAPAZ, LEOPOLDO
CRITICISMS YABES, AND I.V MALLARI.
 SALVADOR LOPEZ – WON COMMONWEALTH
LITERAY AWARD FOR ESSAY IN 1940 WITH
HIS “LITERATURE AND SOCIETY”