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…
The editorial is a type of short essay that advocates some cause, often of a political nature. Political literature has frequently been labeled as pamphleteering and regarded as non-literary political writing or, with luck, as bad literature.…