Literature: Spanish Language Essay

Philippine literature is the literature associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of prehistory, and the colonial legacy of the Philippines. Most of the notable literature of the Philippines was written during the Spanish boundary and the first half of the twentieth century in Spanish language. Philippine literature is written inSpanish, English, Tagalog, and/or other native Philippine languages.-Classical literature in Spanish (19th Century)On December 1, 1846, La Esperanza, the first daily newspaper, was published in the country. Other early newspapers were La Estrella (1847), Diario de Manila (1848) and Boletin Oficial de Filipinas (1852). The first provincial newspaper was El Eco de Vigan (1884), which was issued in Ilocos. In Cebu City El Boletn de Ceb (The Bulletin of Cebu), was published in 1890. On 1863, the Spanish govern workforcet introduced a system of free public nurture that had an important effect on the ability of the population to read in Spanish and further in the rise of an educated class called the Ilustrado (meaning, well-informed). Spanish became the well-disposed language of urban places and the true lingua franca of the archipelago. A good number of Spanish newspapers were published until the end of the 1940s, the most influential of them being El Renacimiento, printed in Manila by members of the Guerrero de Ermita family.Some members of the ilustrado group, while residing or studying in Spain, decided to start a literary production in Spanish with the fetch of serving the autonomy and/or independence projects. Members of this group included Pedro Alejandro Paterno, who wrote the novel Nnay (first novel written by a Filipino) the Philippine subject area hero, Jos Rizal, who wrote excellent poetry and two famous novels in Spanish Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not), and El Filibusterismo. A potent tool in promoting Filipino nationalism in Spanish was the foundation of La Solidaridad (more fondly called La Sol by the members of the propagandamovement) in 15 February 1885. With the help of this organ, Filipino national heroes wish Jos Rizal, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Marcelo H. del Pilar, etc. were able to fathom out their sentiments.Poetry and metrical romances* Ladino Poems Were natives of first Tagalog versifiers who saw print highly literate in both Spanish and the vernacular. * Corridos Were widely read during the Spanish period that filled the populaces need for entertainment as well as edifying reading matter in their leisure moments. * Awit like corridos, these were also widely read during the Spanish period as entertaining, edifying, reading manner in their leisure time. It is also a fabrication of the writers imagination although the characters and the ground may be European. The structure is rendered dodecasyllabic quatrains.ProseThe prose works of the Spanish Period consisted mostly of didatic pieces and translations of religious writings in foreign languages.editDramaseditReligious drama* The Panunuluyan Literally, seeking entrance, the Tagalog version of the Mexican Las Posadas. Held on the eve of delivery boymas, it dramatizes Josephs and Marys search for Bethlehem. * Cenaculo Was the dramatization of the passion and death of Jesus Christ. * Salubong An Easter play that dramatizes the meeting of the Risen Christ and His Mother. * Moriones Refers to the participants dressed roman soldiers, their identities hidden behind colorful, sometimes grotesque, wooden masks. * The Santacruzan Performed during the month of May which have the devotion for the Holy Cross. It depicts St. Elenas search for the cross on which Christ died. * Pangangaluwa An interesting socio-religious practice on All Saints Day which literally means for The Soul.Secular dramasThese were generally held during the nine nights of vigil and prayers aft(prenominal) someones death, on the first death anniversary when the family members put away their mourning clothes. * The Karagatan comes from th e legendarypractice of testing the mettle of young men vying for a maidens hand. The maidens ring would be dropped into sea and whoever retrieves it would have the girls hand in marriage. * The Duplo A forerunner of the balagtasan. The performances consist of two teams One composed of young women called Dupleras or Belyakas and the other, of young men called Dupleros orBelyakos. * The Comedia It is about a courtly love between, a prince and a princess of contrary religions. It is about a Christian-Muslim relationship. *-Modern literature (20th and 21st century)The greatest portion of Spanish literature was written during the American period, most often as an rule of pro-Hispanic nationalism, by those who had been educated in Spanish or had lived in the Spanish-speaking society of the big cities, and whose principles entered in conflict with the American cultural trends. Such period of Spanish literary productioni.e., between the independence of Spain in 1898 and well ahead into the decade of the 1940sis known as Edad de Oro del Castellano en Filipinas.Some enceinte writers of this era were Wenceslao Retana and Claro Mayo Recto, both in drama and essay Antonio M. Abad and Guillermo Gomez Wyndham, in the narrative Fernando Mara Guerrero and Manuel Bernab, both in poetry. The predominant literary expression was the so-called Modernismo, a mixture of elements from the French Parnassien and Symboliste schools, as promoted by some Latin American and Peninsular Spanish writers (e.g. the Nicaraguan Rubn Daro, the Mexican Amado Nervo, the Spaniard Francisco Villaespesa, and the Peruvian Jos Santos Chocano as major models).