Philippine E-Journals

Philippine Literature: A View and a Review

Marcelino A. Foronda Jr.

Discipline: Cultural Studies

 

Abstract:

It has been said that most students pursuing courses in Philippine colleges and universities know more of the literatures of foreign countries like England and America than their own. For one thing, the said literatures are taught in Philippine schools as requirements for college degrees. True, there are some Philippine universities and colleges which invariably add to their curricula a course in Philippine literature, but, if at all, these are the exceptions rather than the rule, and the said course is squeezed into a semester's work which is doubtless insufficient for a fruitful study of the subject.