Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture
Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture

Author: Caroline S. Hau

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789715507790

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This book examines how Filipino literature has intervened in the intellectual and popular debates on the historical origins, ascendancy, power, and legitimacy of the elites. Writers like Jose Rizal, Nick Joaquin, Ninotchka Rosca, Miguel Syjuco, and Ramon Guillermo are unsparing in their criticism of elite authorship of the Philippines' past and present woes while seeking to recuperate the critical stance represented by the ilustrado. The book highlights a number of figures--the "middle sector" or "middle element" in Manila and other urban areas, Manila men and musicians, overseas Filipino workers, intellectuals, and Fil-foreigners--whose emergence as social forces points to the ongoing redefinition of the elites and the transformation of Philippine society, politics, and economy.

Philippine English
Philippine English

Author: MA. Lourdes S. Bautista

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2008-11-01

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 9622099475

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An overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.

Events in the Philippine Islands
Events in the Philippine Islands

Author: Antonio de Morga

Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13:

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First history of the Spanish Phillipines by a layman.

A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino

Author: Nick Joaquin

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Explores the tensions within an artistic bourgeois family living in the prewar Intramuros of Old Manila. The dying Don Lorenzo el Magnifico and his two spinster daughters, 43-y/o Candida and 40-y/o Paula are still living in their old ancestral house located inside Intramuros, the walled city located inside the city. The house is decaying and the two daughters are now collecting bills. Their only hope is to sell the famous (and un-exhibited) self-portrait that their father painted, called “Portrait of an Artist as Filipino” but they don't wish to.

Dream Jungle
Dream Jungle

Author: Jessica Hagedorn

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-09-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0142001090

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One of Jessica Hagedorn's most daring novels—“a deft and complex tale of corruption, fealty, and integrity” (The Baltimore Sun) In a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, two seemingly unrelated events occur: the discovery of an ancient lost tribe living in a remote mountainous area and the arrival of a celebrity-studded, American film crew, there to make an epic Vietnam War movie. But the lost tribe may be a clever hoax and the Hollywood movie seems doomed as the cast and crew continue to self-destruct in a cloud of drugs and ego. As the consequences of these events play out, four unforgettable characters—a wealthy, iconoclastic playboy; a woman ensnared in the sex industry; a Filipino-American writer; and a jaded actor—find themselves drawn irrevocably together in this lavish, sensual portrait of a nation in crisis.