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State of War, also known as State of War: A Novel, is the first novel written in 1988 by American Book Award recipient and Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca.It was described as a political novel that recreated the diverse culture of the Philippines through the presentation of an allegorical Philippine history.
The novel portrays the conditions of the citizenry at the onset of industrialization brought forth by the Americans in the Philippines. Mga Ibong Mandaragit had been translated into English and Russian. [2] [4] Carlos P. Romulo wrote the preface for this book, while Epifanio San Juan Jr. wrote its afterword of the book in Tagalog and English ...
The Philippine revolution brought a wave of nationalistic literary works, with propagandists and revolutionaries advocating for Filipino representation or independence from Spanish authority. Illustrados like Pedro Alejandro Paterno, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Marcelo H. del Pilar, and Jose Rizal contributed to the development of Philippine literature.
Po-on is the beginning of Rosales Saga of F. Sionil José – a series of novels about Rosales, Pangasinan in the Philippines.The Rosales Saga has five parts, all of them individual but interrelated novels, composed namely of the following titles in terms of historical chronology: Po-on, Tree, My Brother, My Executioner, The Pretenders, and Mass.
The first novel, The Pretenders (novel), recalls the life of Antonio “Tony” Samson. Antonio Samson obtains a PhD degree from Harvard University in the United States. By marrying a rich Filipina mestiza, Antonio Samson becomes an Ilustrado and works for his father-in-law. As a result, Antonio Samson is unable to marry his true love and ...
Cave and Shadows is a 1983 [1] whodunit [2] and Martial Law era “metaphysical” thriller [3] [4] novel written by Philippine National Artist Nick Joaquin.The setting of the novel is during Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law in the Philippines, [5] [6] including the time in Manila when activism was alive and demonstrations were frequent before August 1972 (described as Joaquin’s ...
The film was the Philippines' official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film but failed to get nominated. [ 4 ] In 2018, the novel was adapted as a musical first staged at the University of the Philippines [ 5 ] and then restaged at Ateneo de Manila University .
The novel's main character is an American priest named Ben Lucero, who is the son of a Filipino mother and a Filipino American father, as he makes his first trip to the Philippines. When Ben's mother dies, he takes her body to Cebu, Philippines for burial; it is his first trip to his mother's country. In the Philippines, he stays with his ...