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As the title suggests, this paper is about Philippine literary history inasmuch as it is about the socio-cultural
history of the Philippines. Webbing the two themes together is made possible by the correspondence between
the country’s historical periods and literary traditions, namely, Pre-Colonial (Native and Islamic), Colonial
(Spanish and American), and Post-Colonial (Nationalist) respectively.1
According to Northrop Frye, literature is like a looking glass through which “the whole cultural history of the nation that produced it comes into
focus” and that it is possible to see “the cultural history of the nation by looking through that imagination”
which is the language and realm of literature (cited in Willinsky 1998, 236). Although not exactly history,
literature can be viewed as history insofar as it embodies the consciousness of a people at a certain time and
mirrors the society, culture, and people that engendered it. It is very much a product and reflection of the
milieu from which it can never be separated. As such, literature has the potential role of being an indicator as
much as an agent of social change at the same time.
The main task of this paper is to show how these traditions interact with one another in ways that allow
one to have a better understanding of Philippine society. Surveying Philippine literature is like looking at the
cadastral map of Filipino socio-cultural knowledge in which not only many things are added, lost, changed,
and continue over time; but also, borrowed foreign influences get indigenized and incorporated into the native fabric, with local knowledge acting each time to filter, modify, and improve on any new elements to form
who the Filipino is today
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through portrayal of history,different beliefs,ethics,traditions and more
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