Barbed wire: A contextual study of poems by four political prisoners in the Philippines

Date of Publication

4-2004

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Language and Literature Major in Literature

Subject Categories

Language and Literacy Education | Poetry

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

Paz Verdades M. Santos

Defense Panel Chair

Bienvenido L. Lumbera

Defense Panel Member

Janet Hope Tauro-Batuigas
Gerado Z. Torres

Abstract/Summary

Barbed Wire: A Contextual Study of Poems by Four Political Prisoners in the Philippines sheds light on the poems included in the anthologies Why Cage Pigeons? by Mila Aguilar, Moon’s Face and Other Poems by Alan Jazmines, Alab: Mga Tula by Edgar Maranan, and Prison and Beyond by Jose Maria Sison. The lives of these poets have been discussed, and their poems have been categorized according to their themes. The six main classifications are A Barbed-Wire Existence, The Guiding Light, The Detained Society, The Detained Society’s Response; The Poet, the Pen, and Imprisonment; and The Triumph of Battered Lives. The personal and socio-historical contexts of these poems are provided through the interviews which were conducted with the four writers and through library research.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Electronic

Accession Number

CDTG003682

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Keywords

Political prisoners--Philippines; Prisoners' writings, Philippine (English); Poets, Filipino--Interviews

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