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    Literature in the Philippines underwent changes after the 1986 EDSA Revolution that overthrew the Marcos dictatorship. [1] Writing during martial law was characterized by militancy against the regime. [2] After the revolution, literary works showed some initial disorientation as writers explored new themes. [3] Creative writing programs and writers' organizations proliferated to support writers. [4-7] Literature became more diverse and experimental with the decline of strict aesthetic standards. [10] Contemporary works often discuss socio-political issues and themes of identity, poverty, and human rights. [11-12] Both English and Filipino remain widely used in literature.

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    Literature in the Philippines underwent changes after the 1986 EDSA Revolution that overthrew the Marcos dictatorship. [1] Writing during martial law was characterized by militancy against the regime. [2] After the revolution, literary works showed some initial disorientation as writers explored new themes. [3] Creative writing programs and writers' organizations proliferated to support writers. [4-7] Literature became more diverse and experimental with the decline of strict aesthetic standards. [10] Contemporary works often discuss socio-political issues and themes of identity, poverty, and human rights. [11-12] Both English and Filipino remain widely used in literature.

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    Literature in the Philippines underwent changes after the 1986 EDSA Revolution that overthrew the Marcos dictatorship. [1] Writing during martial law was characterized by militancy against the regime. [2] After the revolution, literary works showed some initial disorientation as writers explored new themes. [3] Creative writing programs and writers' organizations proliferated to support writers. [4-7] Literature became more diverse and experimental with the decline of strict aesthetic standards. [10] Contemporary works often discuss socio-political issues and themes of identity, poverty, and human rights. [11-12] Both English and Filipino remain widely used in literature.

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    Literature After EDSA Revolution

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    Literature in the Philippines underwent changes after the 1986 EDSA Revolution that overthrew the Marcos dictatorship. [1] Writing during martial law was characterized by militancy against the regime. [2] After the revolution, literary works showed some initial disorientation as writers explored new themes. [3] Creative writing programs and writers' organizations proliferated to support writers. [4-7] Literature became more diverse and experimental with the decline of strict aesthetic standards. [10] Contemporary works often discuss socio-political issues and themes of identity, poverty, and human rights. [11-12] Both English and Filipino remain widely used in literature.

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    Literature After EDSA Revolution (1986 – 1995)

    1. 1986 EDSA Revolution • The year 1986 demarcates the beginning of new scene
    in the unfolding narrative of contemporary Philippine Literature. – It saw the fall of
    the dictatorship that President Marcos set up on September 21, 1972, when he
    placed the Philippines under martial rule, initiating a regime that did not only
    suppress the writers’ right to free expression but also created conditions that made
    collaboration and cooptation convenient choices for artists struggling for
    recognition and survival.
    2. Writing under the Martial Law Regime was characterized by militancy and
    belligerence, even when it showed up in the legal press. Especially after the
    assassination of Ninoy Aquino in 1983, the temper of poetry and theatre derived
    much of its heat and direction from the political culture of the underground national
    democratic movement. 1986 EDSA Revolution
    3. However, when the enemy were overthrown in 1986, the literary activity showed a
    certain disorientation manifesting itself in a proliferation of concerns taken up by
    individual writers and groups. 1986 EDSA Revolution
    4. Post EDSA: 2 Creative Writing centers o Academic institutions where Creative
    Writing is a part of the curricular offerings. o Writers’ organizations that periodically
    sponsor symposia on writer and/or set up workshops for its members and other
    interested parties § Through these centers that writers get to hear about new
    developments in writing, and derive enthusiasm for their crafts. 1986 EDSA
    Revolution
    5. Writers’ Organizations • UMPIL (Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipino) • PANULAT
    (Pambansang Unyon ng mga Manunulat) • Panday Lipi • GAT (Galian sa Arte)
    6. Writers’ Organization • Katha • LIRA (Linangan sa Imahe, Retorika at Anyo) •
    GUMIL (Gunglo Dagiti Manunurat nga Ilokano) • LUDABI (Lubas sa Dagang
    Bisaya) • PEN (Pen, Essay and Novel)
    7. Post EDSA • La Tondeña, sponsors of the venerable Carlos Palanca Memorial
    Awards in Literature, has made the name “Palanca” a synonym for quality literary
    works in both English and Filipino. • The National Commission for Culture and the
    Arts (NCAA) was created by law in 1992. It has a Committee on Literary Arts which
    funds workshops, conferences, publications and a variety of projects geared
    towards the production of a “national literature”. The committee has the aim of
    developing writing that is multi-lingual, multi-cultural, and truly national.
    8. Post EDSA • non-governmental organizations have helped hand in hand with some
    institutions in giving recognition to writers from specific sectors in the society.
    These NGOs includes the Amado V. Hernandez Foundation; the GAPAS
    foundation, and the KAIBIGAN. • Campus publications are another group of outlets
    that is of importance as a source of non-traditional, experimental writing. These
    campus publications could either be a weekly student newspapers, quarterly
    magazines, or annual literary journals.
    9. Post EDSA • Overall, the character of the Philippine literary scene after "EDSA"
    maybe pinpointed be referring to the theories that inform literary production, to the
    products issuing from the publishers, to the dominant concerns demonstrated by
    the writers' output, and to the direction towards which literary studies are tending.
    10. Characteristics of Post EDSA Literature 1. There is in the academe an emerging
    critical orientation that draws its concerns and insights from literary theorizing
    current in England and the United States 2. Post-EDSA publishing has been
    marked by adventurousness, a willingness to gamble on "non-traditional" projects.
    3. The declining prestige of the New Criticism, whose rigorous aesthetic norms has
    previously functioned as a Procrustean bed on which Filipino authors and their
    works were measured, has opened a gap in the critical evaluation of literary works.
    4. The fourth and final characteristic of post-EDSA writing is the development
    thrust towards the retrieval and the recuperation of writing in Philippine languages
    other than Tagalog.
    11. Characteristics of Contemporary Literature • English and Filipino continue to be
    the major media of literature. • Literature as a venue for socio-politico-economic-
    religious discussions and a vehicle for personal thoughts and feelings has become
    more marked. • Literary themes cover a wide range of subjects most outstanding
    among which are existentialism and the search for identity in varying levels and
    settings, deception and violence perpetuated by those in power, grinding poverty
    especially in the country-sides and in some cities, nationalism, tenant-landlord
    relationship, human rights violation and the search for the desaparecidos, and the
    Filipino diaspora and the experiences of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and
    migrants. • The Anglo-American tradition, which includes the free verse and the
    blank verse, gained acceptance among writers.
    12. Characteristics of Contemporary Literature • The Euro-Hispanic tradition was
    blended with the tradition of propaganda and revolutionary literature to become a
    truly Filipino tradition. • The ‘60s and the ‘70s saw the resurgence of cause-
    oriented literature. This militancy, although markedly toned down, has continued
    to the present. • Further development of regional literatures has been given a
    stronger impetus through the inclusion of regional literary masterpieces in the
    college curriculum. • Filipino writers have become more conscious of their craft as
    shown by the regular conduct of writing workshops (Godinez- Ortega 6).
    13. Contemporary Literary Types • Modern Poetry – This is a new style of poetry
    writing in Tagalog, a deviation from the highly rimed, declamatory tradition known
    for many centuries. • Modern Short Story – These are stories set in the Philippines
    in the English language • The Novel • Essay • Drama
    14. Short Stories • Ang Pinakahuling Kwento ni Huli (The Very Last Story of Huli) –
    Lilia Quindoza Santiago • The Execution – Charlson Ong • Kabilang sa mga
    Nawawala (Among the Disappeared) – Ricardo Lee • Geyluv – Honorio De Dios

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