The (Anti)colonial Awit of Juan Tamad didacticism and subversion in a colonial metrical romance
Issue Date
1-2017
Abstract
In the early decades of the twentieth century a metrical romance on the life of Juan Tamad, recounting the Westernized narrative of the adventures of the Tagalog numskull hero, Juan Tamad, was printed in Manila. This article links the text’s literary history to the discursive regimes of the Spanish and American colonial orders, and treats it as a heteroglossic text that carries the impulses of both clerical and secular didacticism and of radical anticolonial politics. Juan Tamad has since been the embodiment of the Filipino critical imagination in cultural permutations across Philippine history, such as the cinema of Manuel Conde (1947–1963).
Source or Periodical Title
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
ISSN
2244-1093
Volume
65
Issue
3
Page
357-386
Document Type
Article
Physical Description
illustrations
Language
English
Subject
Colonialism, Heteroglossia, Indolence, Metrical romance, Trickster hero
Recommended Citation
Castillo, L.M.S. (2017). The (Anti)Colonial Awit of Juan Tamad: Didacticism and Subversion in a Colonial Metrical Romance. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. 65 (3), 357-386. DOI: 10.1353/phs.2017.0022.
Identifier
DOI:10.1353/phs.2017.0022
Digital Copy
yes