TY - GEN T1 - The (Anti)Colonial Awit of Juan Tamad didacticism and subversion in a colonial metrical romance JF - Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints A1 - Castillo, Laurence Marvin S. LA - English YR - 2017 UL - https://ds.mainlib.upd.edu.ph/Record/UP-1685594773862196932 AB - 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. This article 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). CN - ARTICLE-036 KW - Colonies : Social conditions. KW - Laziness. KW - Atlantic cod. KW - Publishers and publishing. ER -