Writing literary history : mode of economic production and twentieth century Waray poetry /

Bagulaya, Jose Duke S.

Writing literary history : mode of economic production and twentieth century Waray poetry / Jose Duke S. Bagulaya. - Diliman, Quezon City : University of the Philippine Press, c2006. - xx, 338 pages 23 cm.

The book traces the interrelationship between the formation of poetic forms and the shifts in the Philippine political economy. It argues that a specific poetic form develops under a definite mode of economy. Using the poetry of Leyte and Samar as sample, it shows that poetry, or culture in general, does not hold an absolute autonomy from the economy, but is a product of class aestheticizing and political struggle under definite economic conditions. The book contains an anthology of hard-to-find poetry of the Leyte and Samar islands (U.P. Press).

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Literature and history--Leyte
Literature and history--Philippines
Production (Economic theory) in literature.--Samar
Waray poetry--Philippines

PL 6110 / .B147 2006