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PHILIPPINE LITERATURE DURING THE MARTIAL LAW It is not quite correct to argue that it was only in 1972 that Filipino writers started to use their writings to explore socio-political realities.
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VI. PHILIPPINE LITERATURE DURING THE MARTIAL LAW It is not quite correct to argue that it was only in 1972 that Filipino writers started to use their writings to explore socio-political realities. The tradition of protest has always been a potent force in the production of socially committed writings, as a number of critics such as Bienvenido Lumbera, and Epifanio San Juan Jr. have argued. The 1970s, for example, witnessed the proliferation of poems, short stories, and novels which grappled with the burning issues of the times. In a large number of magazines and journals, writers in both English and Pilipino faced the problems of exploitation and injustice, and appropriated these realities as the only relevant materials for their fiction. In effect, writers such as Ricardo Lee, Virgilio Almario, Efren Abueg, Ave Perez Jacob, and Dominador Mirasol produced a large number of texts that were profoundly disturbing, even...
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