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Rizal stood at the forefront of changing perspectives from pre-nationalism to true nationalism in the Philippines. He helped forge a path to developing a national literature by recognizing the importance of utilizing local languages and positioning the Filipino people as equals to the Spanish. Rizal understood the importance of literature engaging with the wider world in order to help Filipinos progress and join the global community. In his seminal novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Rizal portrayed his present realities and visions of the future to develop nationalism and patriotism among Filipinos.

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Rizal stood at the forefront of changing perspectives from pre-nationalism to true nationalism in the Philippines. He helped forge a path to developing a national literature by recognizing the importance of utilizing local languages and positioning the Filipino people as equals to the Spanish. Rizal understood the importance of literature engaging with the wider world in order to help Filipinos progress and join the global community. In his seminal novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Rizal portrayed his present realities and visions of the future to develop nationalism and patriotism among Filipinos.

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Philip John L.

Gargar BSTM4

Title of the Reading: Jose Rizal and the Invention of a National Literature

SUMMARY (maximum of seven sentences)

Rizal stood at the forefront where the perspective change from pre-nationalism into true nationalism,
forging a path to a "national" literature. He and the early nationalists knew that their propaganda
mission was an ambivalent one. They were claiming that the Filipinos can stand equally with Spaniards,
the benefactors, whose myriad of local languages can be utilized as an autonomous state. They knew of
the importance of being "internationalized", and how it could help natives step up and join the "world-
system" The role of literature can only grow through a vital conversation with the rest of the world, Rizal
said. In this perspective, he treated Noli Me Tangere as a window to his present time, while El
Filibusterismo is a glimpse of the future.

How does it develop and/or promote nationalism to you?

The seminal novels of the Philippines, José Rizal's Noli me tangere (1887) and "El filibusterismo" (1891),
are written in Spanish, a language that began evaporating in the archipelago when the United States
defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War in 1898 and imposed English as a lingua franca. Where
does a foundational author like Rizal fit in a discussion of globalized literatures when the Philippines are
commonly framed as a historical and cultural hybrid neither quite Asian nor quite Western? In Rizal's "El
filibusterismo," the Philippines are an inchoate national project imagined not in Asia but amid complex
allusive dynamics that emanate from the Americas. Rizal and his novel, like the Philippine nation they
inspired, appear in global and postcolonial frameworks as both Asian and American in that epistemes
Eastern and Western, subaltern and hegemonic, interact in a ceaseless flow that resists easy
categorization.

How does it develop and/or promote patriotism to you?

The literary aspect of Rizal's works should commend itself to each of you as an inspiration to do your
own duty. I think no man can read Rizal's novels without feeling his powerful impulse of sympathy for
and understanding of the people of this country. We can be moved not only by his profound reading of
human nature, but we can also be inspired to emulate, if we may, the high level of talent for which his
name will ever be famous in the history of literature. Here in the Philippines I would, if I could, arouse
you to more earnest devotion to a literary career. You have natural advantages second to no country in
the world.

How does it develop and/or promote volunteerism to you?

In 1896, Dr. José Rizal was sentenced to death by firing squad for sedition, conspiracy, and rebellion.
Upon hearing the command to shoot him, he faced the squad and uttered in his final breath:
Consummatum est (It is finished) According to historical accounts, only one bullet ended the life of the
Filipino martyr and hero.

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