Poetics, Perception, Disinterestedness: An Online Notebook

Showing posts with label philippines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philippines. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Impatso and Punning




How many puns are in this Filipino commercial?

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Gémino H Abad's Native Clearing

As Imagined, As Lived: Sense for Language, Sense of Country (2008) by Gémino H Abad:

If we ask why the system of education in any country includes its literature as a required subject, the answer is pretty obvious: because a country's literature is its own image, that is to say, its imagination of how its people think and feel about their world and so, justify the way they live. In short, its literature is its lived ideology.

In that light, our country's literature is 'our native clearing' within the language that has been forged and adopted for the artistic mimesis.

Now, one's country is basically how one imagines her. Note the poetical gender: Inang Bayan. For one's sense of country is essentially a poetic sense: an imaginative perception of our day-to-day living in the very element of our history and culture.