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Announcements. MIDTERM on MON! Bring a BLANK bluebook! Presentation Wed 2/13 = April, Daniel, Stephani , Sith , Isaac 1 page summary per group member due 6pm Tues night. Inang Bayan. The Necessary Fictions of the Nation. “A Son is Born”.

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  1. Announcements • MIDTERM on MON! • Bring a BLANK bluebook! • Presentation Wed 2/13 = April, Daniel, Stephani, Sith, Isaac • 1 page summary per group member due 6pm Tues night

  2. Inang Bayan The Necessary Fictions of the Nation

  3. “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?

  4. commonwealth • 1905 – 1934 – Philippines as “unincorporated territory” • Promise of independence justifies ambiguous status of islands • 1934 – TydingsMcDuffieAct (Philippine Independence Act) • Independence promised in 10 years • EstablishesPhilippinecommonwealth • 1935 – Manuel Quezonelectedfirstpresident

  5. De- or Neo-Colonization? • Economic, educational, militarypoliciesensuredepdendentPhilippinestate • Bell TradeActguaranteesparityrightsforforeignbusiness • American control of educationalsystem • Joint-forceagreements; US-trained Filipino military • Cultural policiescultivate Filipino nationalism • Establishment of national language based on Tagalog • Cultivation of literature in Tagalog, Spanish and English  1940 Commonwealth Literary Awards

  6. 1940 literary awards “It is the great opportunity of the leaders of the present generation and government to take specific measures to create the conditions favourable for the preservation and development of [social] ideas and achievements through the most adequate records of literature and art… To take our rightful place by the side of the highly developed nations of the world today, we have to achieve within a much shorter time what it has taken others centuries to develop out of their trial-and-error method… We are favorably placed today in that we have the distinct advantage of profiting from the experience of other peoples, without having to go through all of the painful processes that they could have avoided had they known better… We submit that it is highly possible to keep the march of culture alongside with our economic development and create a sane and balanced nation sufficient in equal measure in its material as well as spiritual needs.” – FredericoMangahas, “Literature Under the Commonwealth”

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