Philippine literature : A History & Anthology /
Bienvenido Lumbera and Cynthia Nograles Lumbera
- Revised Edition.
- Pasig City, Philippines : Anvil Publications, c1997
- ix, 440 pages ; 26 cm.
1. Oral lore from precolonial times -- 2. Literature under Spanish colonialism -- 3. Literature under U.S. Colonialism -- 4. Literature Under the republic -- 5. Literature after Edsa.
This textbook is an interpretation of literary development in the Philippines as an alternation of assertion and acquiescence by the Filipino creative imagination within a cultural setting fostered by our people's interaction with two different sets of colonial masters.