• Miguel Garcia (Apa): He was a campesino and he worked in the fields planting and harvesting crops. He felt guilty of…
|Prompt: To What Extent is the Family Important in Latino Culture and How is This Demonstrated in the Literature by Hispanic Writers? |…
In his poem “Ayotzinapa,” Juan Felipe Herrara writes about the tragic deaths of the 43 Mexican students who were killed in an attempt to connect with the community over this tragedy. Herrara believes that as a poet his civic duty is to be a part of the community, to try and connect with them in whatever way possible. He uses his poem “Ayotzinapa” to reach out to the community in two different ways. The first is to create awareness about the events that took place in Iguala, Mexico. People who had not heard of the incident might learn of it through reading his poetry. This is a great example of his poetry abides by Herraras idea of a poets civic duty; by bringing awareness he is creating connections with the community. The second way in which…
Chicanos have a particular society; they have been through a numerous events, mostly bad ones to fight for their rights. The importance of the Zoot Suit Riots lay not only in what the WWII was about—freedom, antiracism and segregation, but also in how it might be used to gain insight in the youth culture movement, which can demonstrate how the government can undertake and prohibit their own lives and identities (Alvarez, 2008). Zoot Suits were not simply metaphors for the political agendas of others, rather they practiced their own cultural politics, which if examined carefully can teach us a great deal about how seemingly powerless populations craft their own identities and claim dignity (Alvarez, 2008). This brings the issue that…
Yo la tengo, y yo espero que ha de brillar un dia en que venza la Idea a la fuerza brutal, que despues de la lucha y la lenta agonia, otra vzx mas sonora, mas feliz que la mi sabra cantar entonces el cantico triunfal. [I have the hope that the day will dawn/when the Idea will conquer brutal force; that after the struggle and the lingering travail,/another voice, more sonorous, happier than mine shall know then how to sing the triumphant hymn.] -- Jose Rizal, “Mi Retiro” (22 October 1895)…
Rizal had published books such as the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as his weapons against the dominions of Spain in our country. These novels became an inspiration over the “KATIPUNAN” or the “Sons of the People.”…
* Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo (In memory of my town) – the poem Rizal wrote in 1876 when he was a student in Ateneo when he remembered his beloved town…
One of the greatest influences to José was his industrious mother who went out of her way to get him the books he loved to read, while making sure her family did not go hungry despite of poverty and landlessness. José started writing in grade school, at the time he started reading. In the fifth grade, one of José’s teachers opened the school library to her students, which is how José managed to read the novels of José Rizal, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Faulkner and Steinbeck. Reading about Basilio and Crispin in Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere made the young José cry, because injustice was not an alien thing to him. When José was five years old, his grandfather who was a soldier during the Philippine revolution, had once tearfully showed him the land their family had once tilled but was taken away by rich mestizo landlords who knew how to work the system against illiterates like his grandfather.…
"José Rizal: Life, Works, and Writings of a Genius, Writer, Scientist, and National Hero", notice…
Nick Joaquin as an author during the American and Japanese colonization deemed the importance of establishing cultural identity not seen in other compositions. Born in the old district of Paco, Manila, on September 15, 1917, he was raised by his parents with a voracious appetite for books and the Catholic faith. He spent his childhood years reading classics by D.H. Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, and many others in his father’s library. His father is often characterized in his writings as a stereotype of a strict yet compassionate father a foundation of his imagery about the patriarchal society at that time. It appeared to him that American education distanced writers from their immediate surroundings (Alas, 2010).…
* Furious attacks on Rizal by SenatorSalamanca and Vida in the SpanishCortes and by Desengaños (Wenseslao E.Retana) and Quioquiap (Pablo Feced) inspanish newspapers…
The best known translations in English arethose by Charles Derbyshire (1912) andLeon Ma. Guerrero (1961)…
WHEREAS, the life, works and writing of Jose Rizal, particularly his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, are a constant and inspiring source of patriotism with which the minds of the youth, especially during their formative and decisive years in school, should be suffused;…
He is our liberator.// Intelligent that he was,/ at a young age,/ he committed his life on pen and paper.// He peered into the dying hearts/ of the Filipino people through his words/ that burned with wisdom.// Through his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo,/ he unlocked the minds and hearts/ of his people to expose them /to the Spaniard’s colonial plots,/ and brought the Filipinos back/ from the grave of slavery.// The Filipinos…
Capino, Gonzales and Pineda: Rizal 's life, works and writings:their impact on our National identity…