History & Society in the Novels of Ramon Muzones

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Ateneo University Press, 2001 - Literary Criticism - 201 pages
A study of how biography, literary tradition, and social history intersect, showing how outstanding Hiligaynon writer Ramon Muzones reacted to the socioeconomic and political changes during his time. Considers over a hundred primary texts in order to account for the dominance of the romance mode in the Hiligaynon novel, the Ilonggo writers' attraction for the supernatural, the tradition of feisty women characters, the influence of film and the komiks, and the relationship of the novel's birth with the zarzuela's demise.
 

Contents

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RAMON MUZONES
1
The Fall of Iloilo and the Rise of the Middle Class
9
The Hegira to Bacolod and Manila
15
Politics and the Ganzon Connection
22
From Mapiut to Mayaraara
28
MUZONES AND THE HILIGAYNON NARRATIVE TRADITION
35
The Return of the Native Tradition
45
THE NOVELS OF RAMON MUZONES
71
The Rise of the Educated HeroHeroine
85
Origins of the Atypical Heroine
94
The Period of Decline
106
Muzones and Society
114
APPENDIX
123
NOTES
157
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
163
123
183

The Period of Maturity
77

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