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LTEN 181
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Filipino Literature and Culture: Nineteenth Century to World
War II
TTh 3:30-4:50pm
Center Hall 222
Instructor: John D. Blanco (jdblanco@ucsd.edu)
jdblanco@ucsd.edu
Office hours: T 11am-12pm: W 10am-12pm
3434 Literature Bldg.
phone: 4-3639
This course surveys the authors, intellectual currents, and cultural politics of Filipino
culture from the 1880s to World War II. Topics include the legacy of Spanish
colonialism, European enlightenment, the role of the Philippines in the imagination and
projection of American exceptionalism, and the emergence of nationalism and socialism,
and Filipino literature in English.
REQUIREMENTS:
Attendance (10%) (2 absences or less = A; 3 absences = B; 4 absences = C; 5 absences =
D; 6 absences = F); Participation (15%); oral presentation (10%); 2 short responses (3
pages each) (10% each = 20%); 1 medium-length paper (7 pages) (20%); final exam
(25%)
READINGS
José Rizal, Noli me tangere
Apolinario Mabini, The Philippine Revolution
Carlos Bulosan, On Becoming Filipino (ed. E. San Juan)
José García Villa, Footnote to Youth
Course reader (available from University Readers: go to
http://www.universityreaders.com/students/instructions.php or email University
Readers at orders@universityreaders.com).
READING SCHEDULE
Th
27 September 2007 Introduction
T
2 October
Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Empire (“Age of Empire” and “Waving Flags”)
(R); José Rizal, “The Philippines in a Hundred Years” (R)
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T
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4
9
11
16
José Rizal, Noli me tangere
Noli me tangere (cont’d)
Noli me tangere (cont’d)
Noli me tangere (cont’d)
2
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T
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T
18
José Rizal, El filibusterismo (excerpts) (R); 1st paper due
23
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History, chaps. 1 and
7 (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/TURNER/); John D. Blanco,
“Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution” (pdf)
25
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The
Philippine Reader, chapter 1
30
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court chaps. 1-13, 21-24
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1 November
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (chaps. 39-end)
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6
Robert Rydell, All the World’s a Fair (excerpt) (R); “Savage Acts” (film);
2nd paper due
Th
8
Efren Rivera Ramos, “The Legal Doctrine of the Insular Cases” and “The
Ideology of the Insular Cases” (R)
13
Apolinario Mabini, The Philippine Revolution (pdf); John D. Blanco,
“Violence By Right” (MS Word file); Mabini-Bell correspondence (pdf)
15
Barbara Gaerlan, “The Pursuit of Modernity” ®; Reynaldo Ileto,”Cholera
and the Origins of the American Sanitary Order in the Philippines” ®;
Warwick Anderson, “Where Every Prospect Pleases ®; Michael Salman,
“Nothing Without Labor” ®
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Th
T
20
The Philippines Reader, chapter 2; Paz Marquez Benitez, “Dead Stars”
(pdf); Loreto Paras Sulit, “Harvest” (pdf); Paz Latorena, “Desire” (pdf)
22
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
27
Carlos Bulosan, On Becoming Filipino
29
On Becoming Filipino (cont’d); Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, “White Trash
Meets the ‘Little Brown Monkeys’” ®
4 December
José García Villa, Footnote to Youth (cont’d)
3
Th
6
Footnote to Youth (cont’d); conclusion; final paper due
FINAL EXAM: DECEMBER 10, 3-5:59PM (TBA)