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Philippine Literature in Spanish: Canon Away from Canon
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"The usual description that Hispanofilipino literature comprises the literary writings of Filipino authors in Spanish, places the question of language at its core. However, language appears to be a secondary concern in many analyses written to date, induced perhaps by the presupposition that the language of Hispanofilipino literature should always and exclusively be Spanish. A cursory perusal of the texts in the canon suggests otherwise: While Spanish is indeed the primary language of these texts, various acts of translation have been used in composing them and in giving them a literary afterlife beyond the immediate limits of their first production. I argue in this chapter that translation should be considered a language of Hispanofilipino literature. Instead of the traditional model that restricts it to that process of mediation ensuing from an antecedent text, I contend that translation should be approached as a fundamental practice of authoring postcolonial literature that reflects the allures and discontents of writing in a multilingual space under the colonial condition.
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Kritika Kultura, 2022
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Colonial Spanish-Philippine Literature between 1604 and 1808: A First Survey
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The first two centuries of Spanish presence in the Philippines produced an extensive corpus of Spanish texts, which have not been widely studied by historians of literature. This corpus is defined as colonial Spanish Philippine literature, an original and unique body of work that has parallels as well as divergences with respect to its Spanish American analogue. Manila’s literary culture of this period can be succinctly reconstructed through the study of private libraries. A classification of this rich corpus’ four literary genres is presented: martyrdom reports, ecclesiastical chronicles and civil histories, accounts of events, and festivity books. Although the possibilities of reading in Manila were restricted by ecclesiastical censorship and the scarcity of books, there was an abundant textual production, which encouraged Filipinos to emerge as authors. Finally, five literary works are presented for their literary and cultural value and which can be considered as forming part of the canon of colonial Spanish Philippine literature.
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