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Announcements. W 1/30: Samantha Santiago, Diana Tran, Bryant Lim, & Tabah Syed Midterm – Mon 2/4! Closed-note, closed-book, bluebook exam designed for full 80 minutes 4 possible short essay questions – only first 3 will be graded. All questions based on the first 4 weeks of readings

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  1. Announcements • W 1/30: Samantha Santiago, Diana Tran, Bryant Lim, & TabahSyed • Midterm – Mon 2/4! • Closed-note, closed-book, bluebook exam designed for full 80 minutes • 4 possible short essay questions – only first 3 will be graded. All questions based on the first 4 weeks of readings • Allan Isaac • Ileto, Lumbera, Constantino • Lumbera and Spanish revolutionary texts • Filipino women’s writing in English • Best way to study  review lectures, notes and presentations; determine main themes and questions of readings

  2. InangBayan Gender, Language and Nationalism

  3. Las Filipinas/Filipinas • Woman and land • Gendering of power hierarchies  mutually reinforcing systems of colonialism and patriarchy • Constituting nation and family • Feelings of nationalism inspired by familial tropes • The (false) dichotomy between public and private or domestic and national

  4. Rizal • Spanish as realm of ilustrado learning and language of reform • Mestizo appropriation of Spanish to imagine new concept of the Filipino • Filipino – Spanish creole; Spaniard born in Philippines • Filipino – Hispanicized or Latinized mestizos • Philippines imagined as the object of love of the new Filipino • Concept of the new Filipino inextricable from love of land – evoking patriotism and nationalism through romantic imagery

  5. Bonifacio& Jacinto • Tagalog vs Spanish • Rejection of colonizer’s language • Positions lowland Tagalogs as leaders of the revolution • Philippine nation  enlightened Tagalog vision

  6. Two Visions of Progress Philippine nation Glorious pre-colonial period Philippine nation REASON & REVOLUTION REASON & US TUTELAGE Darkness of Spanish rule Darkness of Spanish rule Bonifacio

  7. Motherhood/Victimhood • Constituting nation and family relegates women to two roles: • Mothers – either good or bad • Victims – violation of woman’s body as trope and consequence of colonialism • Women closely linked to affect rather than reason • Affect – emotion or desire, esp that which influences action • Mother’s duty = to train sons to love nation • Women as reproducers of nation rather than subjects of nation

  8. English Paradoxes • English as colonizing language • Force and consent • Unification of Philippines through English • English as equalizing language? • Spanish education = mestizo, upper class males • Public universal education in Philippines

  9. “Dead Stars” • Paz Marquez Benitez – author of first Philippine short story in Eng • Using English to describe upper-class Hispanicized household @ moment of transition to US occupation • How is Alfredo as an upper-class Hispanicized Filipino depicted? • What is his relationship with Esperanza like? Why is he attracted to Julia? • What is the symbolism of the “dead stars”?

  10. “Desire” • How can this story be read as an allegory? • Unnamed main character • The white man • How is the story working in “claiming the self, writing the body”?

  11. “A Son is Born” • Manuel Arguilla – conscious attempt to capture in English “authentic” native scenes of the Philippines • Intimacies of village life = authentic Filipino character? • Language and Authenticity • Can the idea of what it means to be Filipino be expressed in a non-Filipino language? • “They took away the language of my blood, / giving me one ‘more widely understood.’ / More widely understood! Now Lips can never / Never with the Soul-in-me commune” (Zapanta-Manlapaz 68) • Is there even a way of defining or determining what counts as being authentically Filipino?

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