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- Title
Pagsubok sa Isang Mapagpalayang Pagkilala't Pagtaya sa Sining ni Jose Corazon de Jesus.
- Authors
San Juan Jr., E.
- Abstract
Extolled as the "King of Balagtasan," De Jesus' poetics has not received a just and historically informed evaluation as part of the national-democratic cultural tradition. This essay endeavors to assay the poet's achievement via a political and cognitive mapping of the literary field in three overlapping zones: first, his literary group practice; second, his social class; and third, the ideological constellation mediating between class, political-ethical imperatives, and artistic affiliation. Key to this interpretation are the balagtasan institution and journalism, together with his attack on American teachers and commitment to the dignity of learners. Both lived situations articulated De Jesus' concept of engagement embodied in elegiac-lyric discourse to express communal needs and demands. Historical contradictions, not love, ground the architectonics of his poetics. With the final interpretant as the conduct of popular critique and mass mobilization, De Jesus s poetry appeals and provokes contemporary readers as a culture-bearer of potential liberatory impulses.
- Subjects
DE Jesus, Jose Corazon; POETICS; COMMODIFICATION; SOCIAL classes; ALLEGORY; IMPERIALISM in literature
- Publication
Malay, 2013, Vol 26, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0115-6195
- Publication type
Article