Culture & History / Nick Joaquin.

By: Joaquin, Nick [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pasig city : Anvil Pub., c2024Description: 411 pages ; Illustration, 24 cmISBN: 978-971-27-3498-4Subject(s): | | | LOC classification: FIL HM 101 J63 2024
Contents:
Culture as history -- Footnotes to yesterday -- Our heart's in the highlands? -- Culture hero: the Santo Niño de Cebu -- Ikon, friar and conquistador -- Bulls and geography -- The Beatas of 17th-century Manila -- History as culture -- Notes on the menu -- Apocalypse and the revolution -- The American interlude -- Expression in the Philippines -- A heritage of smallness -- Junking the heritage -- Culture and history.
Summary: Who is the Filipino? What makes him so? National Artist for literature Nick Joaquin answers these questions in Culture and History, a groundbreaking treatise on Philippine History and Filipino Identity, and how the tools of our native and adopted cultures have shaped both. With profound, thought-provoking, timeless essays that take Filipino readers back in time to rediscover their roots, as well as challenge preconceived notions on the meaning of culture and history and the intricate makings of the Filipino psyche, Culture and History exhibits Nick Joaquin's vivid, nostalgic, ingenious prose and keen insight that only a brilliant writer and perceptive historian can deliver.
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Culture as history -- Footnotes to yesterday -- Our heart's in the highlands? -- Culture hero: the Santo Niño de Cebu -- Ikon, friar and conquistador -- Bulls and geography -- The Beatas of 17th-century Manila -- History as culture -- Notes on the menu -- Apocalypse and the revolution -- The American interlude -- Expression in the Philippines -- A heritage of smallness -- Junking the heritage -- Culture and history.

Who is the Filipino? What makes him so?

National Artist for literature Nick Joaquin answers these questions in Culture and History, a groundbreaking treatise on Philippine History and Filipino Identity, and how the tools of our native and adopted cultures have shaped both. With profound, thought-provoking, timeless essays that take Filipino readers back in time to rediscover their roots, as well as challenge preconceived notions on the meaning of culture and history and the intricate makings of the Filipino psyche, Culture and History exhibits Nick Joaquin's vivid, nostalgic, ingenious prose and keen insight that only a brilliant writer and perceptive historian can deliver.

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