Clodualdo del mundo poems and quotes
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Philippine literature
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Chapter6-PhilLit.ppt
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The Mighty Words: Writers of Protest and Revolution
Speak of protest and one speaks of proletariat literature. The notion of labor leaders and activists carry with it the stipulation of the simplistic and naïve. And yet, Filomeno V. Aguilar, social historian, writing for the Philippine Studies asked a question about the origin of it all—Agoncillo and his favoring of Bonifacio and the revolt of the mass–es: “The proletarian label attached to the Katipunan has also been contest–ed. In Roots of Dependency, Jona–than Fast and Jim Richardson noted the ‘over–simplification and loose–ness of terminology’ in Agoncillo’s work.” Continuing the quote, Aguilar wrote: “Subsequently, Richardson has provided data on the class composition of the Katipunan based on information on 136 persons who had joined the move–ment prior to 1896, most of whom held leadership positions in the Katipunan’s branches and popular councils. None of them were poor or held low–paid occupations because many of them were employed by private com–panies or the colonial state; Their wages or salaries were either around or above the median for the city in the mid–1890s.”
Be that as it may, there is no denying the power of Bonifacio and the poe