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. Thisarticle 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).Keywords: colonialism • metrical romance • indolence • trickster hero • heteroglossia
Recommended Citation
Castillo, Laurence Marvin
(2017)
"The (Anti)Colonial Awit of Juan Tamad: Didacticism and Subversion in a Colonial Metrical Romance,"
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints: Vol. 65:
No.
3, Article 4.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol65/iss3/4
