WEEK 2 - Discussion 2

Discussion 2

Give 1 PHILIPPINE literature that you like. Give a short description of what it is about. Why do you like it?

    Despite the fact that they've only ever read a few Filipino literature and that they were also just requirements for our Filipino class, I happened to like one of the things I've read for school and that is "La Loba Negra". Said to be written by José Apolonio Burgos, La Loba Negra was then adapted into an opera by Francisco Feliciano. It is a story about Donya Luisa, the widowed wife of Don Fernando Manuel de Bustamante y Bustillo, the newly-appointed Governor-General in the Philippines at the time of the story. Don Fernando was assassinated by the corrupt officials and high priests because of how we had arrested most of them because of how they pocketed the money of the people. Because of her husband's death, Donya Luisa wept and vowed for revenge, which led her to renounce her religion became "La Loba Negra", a rebel who came to avenge her husband's death by killing hundreds of friars and also joining another rebel leader, Macatangay to free the country of its oppressors. With that being said, I liked the book because of how it portrayed social injustices in the country and that with the protagonist, she was able to rid the country off of corruption and oppressors, with an ending that finally gave her peace and that became an inspiration for a lot of people to become more critical and loud at the time the story was written.

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