Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Accelerators of Filipino
Nationalism
Pedro Paterno
Pedro Paterno (1857-1911) and Jose Rizal (18611896) were writers who employed Spanish no
longer for the propagation of Christian religion but
for a changing concept of Filipino
Sampaguitas (1880) a collection of Spanish poems
by Paterno; by its insistence on being Filipino,
this anthology marked the beginning of national
consciousness among the Filipino intelligentsia
(educated elite)
Ninay (1885) the first Filipino novel
Jose Rizal
The Propaganda
Movement (1872-1896)
The Katipunan
Literary Forms
the Novel
the Essay
Print Journalism
duplo -poetic joust
at the end of the 19th Century, Philippine
literature can be described as either religious
(poems and homiletic essays) or secular
(poems, plays, and songs on romantic subjects
taken from medieval Spanish ballads).