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Renacimiento Filipino was a nationalistic weekly magazine in Spanish and Tagalog, created in 1901. Since 1903, it was directed by Fernando María Guerrero, with Rafael Calma as its editor. Around 1908, it was the most extended publication in the…

To understand the proliferation of the biographical genre in the Philippine literary scene, two factors must be taken into account. On the one hand, the literary tradition: Philippine metrical romances, awits and corridos, tended to describe the…

World War II resulted in the destruction of Manila among other cities and the death of thousands of Filipinos. Many of those who survived were traumatized by witnessing events of unprecedented violence by the Japanese and the destruction of Manila's…