ALBERTO FLORENTINO'S MYHOMEPAGE (10/1/2000)
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ALBERTO FLORENTINO'S MYHOMEPAGE (10/1/2000)
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A N N O U N C E M E N T
AFTER THE HIATUS
following an 8-month trial run and preview
on a different website from Jan. to Aug. 2000…
ALBERTO FLORENTINO’s Cybermagazine
I L U S T R A D O . net
returns to cyberspace
starting Jan. 1, 2001
on this Yahoo!Geocities website:
http://www.geocities.com/bertflorentino72831/index.html
to celebrate ALBERTO FLORENTINO's achievements as Playwright, Book publisher and Cultural worker, including his…
MILESTONES IN 7 DECADES:
• 70th Birthday (1931-2001)
• 53rd year as a Writer (1948-2001)
• 47th year as a Playwright (1954-2001)
• 42nd year as a Book Publisher (1959-2001)
• 47th year of his Palanca/TOYM Awards (1954-2001)
with the aim to share with:
• Filipinos
• Filipino-Americans
• Americans of Filipino Parentage
• Filipinos in Diaspora
• Other "Hyphenated" Filipinos
• Filipinophiles
everywhere and anywhere
in the Whole Wide World and in Cyberspace…
the fruit of FLORENTINO’s researches and writings: books, papers, lectures, speeches, newsletters, pamphlets, monographs, chapbooks, interviews, reviews, etc. in his fields of interest:
• Philippine Theater and Drama
• Philippine Literature in English
• Philippine Literature in Tagalog
• Philippine Book Publishing
• Philippine Literary History
• Philippine Folklore
• Philippine Cinema and Television
• Other Philippine Arts
• The Humanities…
I L U S T R A D O . n e t
will feature:
FAST-BREAKING LITERARY NEWS!
• Thesis on ALBERTO FLORENTINO and his Works, a Doctoral Dissertation by Dr. TERESITA CAREY, Chair, Communication Arts, St. Paul College of Manila, a Doctoral candidate at the Graduate School, De La Salle University, Manila, described below in detail:
• THE ESSENTIAL FLORENTINO: A Critical Edition
A Doctoral Dissertation by TERESITA G. CAREY, presented in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Arts in Language and Literature (major in Literature);
• Action by the Committee on Oral Examination, Graduate School, College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University, on Aug. 12, 2000:
• PASSED: Accepted in partial fufillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF ARTS in Language and Literature (major in Literature);
ATTESTED by Dr. ESTRELLITA V. GRUENBERG, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University.
• Thesis Adviser: Dr. ISAGANI R. CRUZ;
• Committee on Oral Examination CHAIRMAN: Dr. BIENVENIDO LUMBERA;
• MEMBERS: Dr. Teresita Erestain, Dr. Herminia Bas, Dr. Buenaventura S. Medina, Jr., Dr. Estrellita V. Gruenberg.
• RECENT THESES & DISSERTATIONS
on ALBERTO FLORENTINO
and (his Play) “THE WORLD IS AN APPLE”:
• DOCTORAL Dissertations:
1. 2000: “The Essential FLORENTINO: A Critical Edition” by TERESITA G. CAREY (Doctoral Dissertation, De La Salle U, Manila, Philippines, 2000) (see above)
2. 1979: “The Dynamics of Creativity: An In-Depth Study of Seven Eminent Writers (Wilfrido Guerrero, Ricaredo Demetillo, Alejandrino Hufana, ALBERTO FLORENTINO, Cirilo Bautista, Gregorio Brillantes and Buenaventura Medina” by CORAZON A. GAABUCAYAN (Doctoral Dissertation, Centro Escolar U, Manila, Philippines, 1979).
MASTERAL Theses:
3. 1972: (ALBERTO FLORENTINO's) "THE WORLD IS AN APPLE and Other Prize Plays”: A Study of the Conflict of Human Values by MA. FLOR MEJORADO (Masteral Thesis, St. Louis U, Baguio City, Phlippines, 1972).
4. 1973: “Pag-aaral sa mga Dulang Iisahing Yugto na Nagwagi ng Unang Gantimpala sa Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature,” [A Study of One-Act Plays Awarded a First Prize in the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature that includes ALBERTO FLORENTINO's "THE WORLD IS AN APPLE"] (1954-1972) by
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ALBERTO FLORENTINO IN THE CANON FOR PHILIPPINE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
ALBERTO FLORENTINO AND (HIS) THE WORLD IS AN APPLE IN PHILIPPINE LITERARY CANON
"When I wrote 'The World Is an Apple' in '53, I didn't know 'canon' from 'cannon' or 'canyon'."
--A. FLORENTINO (age 69, NY 8/15/00)
ALBERTO FLORENTINO
Shortlist of Top 5 WRITERS
• Novelists: NVM Gonzalez, 36 pts.
• Playwrights: ALBERTO FLORENTINO, 35 pts.
• Short Story Writers: NVM Gonzalez, 33 pts.
• Poets: Jose Garcia Villa, 33 pts.
• Essayists: Salvador P. Lopez, 29 pts.
THE WORLD IS AN APPLE
Shortlist of Top 5 GENRES
• Plays: THE WORLD IS AN APPLEe by FLORENTINO, 20 pts (tie w/#2)
• Literary Criticism: Phil. Lit.: Perpetually Inchoate by Miguel A. Bernad, SJ 20 pts
• Short Stories: How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife by Manuel E. Arguilla, 18 pts.
• Poems: Like the Molave by R. Zulueta da Costa, 18 pts.
• Essays: Literature and Society by S.P. Lopez, 19 pts.
ALBERTO FLORENTINO
Shortlist of 10 Top PLAYWRIGHTS:
• ALBERTO FLORENTINO, 35 pts.
• Severino Reyes, 17 pts.
• Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, 16 pts.
• Nick Joaquin, 16 pts
• Wilfrido D. Nolledo, 15 pts.
• Jesus Peralta, 15 pts
• Severino Montano, 14 pts.
• Aurelio Tolentino, 13 pts.
• Rolando Tinio, 11 pts.
• Mar Puatu, 9 pts.
THE WORLD IS AN APPLE
Shortlist of 10 Top PLAYS:
• THE WORLD IS AN APPLE, 20 pts
• Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio by Paul Dumol,16 pts.
• Walang Sugat by Severino Reyes, 16 pts.
• Solo entre las sombras by Claro M. Recto,10 pts.
• A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino by Nick Joaquin, 9 pts.
• New Yorker from Tondo by Marcelino Agana, 8 pts.
• Turn Red the Sea by Wilfredo Nolledo, 7 pts
• Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas by Aurelio Tolentino, 6 pts.
• Sabina by Severino Montano, 6 pts.
• Forever by Wilfredo Ma. Guerrero, 5 pts.
(*from a doctoral thesis by Dr. Estrellita Valeros-Gruenberg, De La Salle University, Metro Manila, the Philippines)
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L I T E R A R Y S I D E B A R
BIENVENIDO LUMBERA ON ALBERTO FLORENTINO:
EXPERIMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY THEATER. With the increasing prestige of Tagalog, Philippine drama began to show signs of life again after a dormancy of almost 20 years. In the 1950s, the only theater activity to be noted in Manila consisted of occasional campus presentations of foreign plays in English. Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero continued to write and produce his plays, but the only new talent in English-language drama was Alberto Florentino (1931- ), who turned out one-act plays that at the time seemed anachronistic as literary works in English because of their concern, not with alienation and other literary themes from the West, but with social problems like poverty in the slums. These plays were put together in The World Is an Apple and Other Prize Plays (1959), and their continuing pertinence to Philippine conditions has been demonstrated by the many productions that have been given to these dramatic works. In the 1970s, Florentino has turned to Filipino, having worked as a television playwright and found a mass audience hospitable to the subject matter of his dramas. (p. 45) (italics supplied)
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Drama in English had to wait until after the Pacific War to turn out a playwright who would brave the tide of aestheticism and dare to be socially conscious. Alberto Florentino wrote about the urban poor and their desperate lives in a society where mobility is possible only if one has wealth and education. His slim volume of one-act plays, The World Is an Apple and Other Prize Plays (1959), was unfashionable when it first camer out but the plays included in it have since proven their durability as images of the urben “lower depths” of the Philippines. (p.64)
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One might resort to a cliché and describe the effect as “crippling.” While Phlippi
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L I T E R A R Y F O O T N O T E S
TALA KERNAN, of Buckman (Public School) in Portland, Oregon, will be the youngest of 1,500 (adult) poets and songwriters whose poems have been chosen in the Poetry Contest (The International Library of Poetry, 1 Poetry Plaza, Owings Mills, MD 21117 (www.poetry.com) for inclusion in the coffeetable anthology NATURE'S ECHOES (Lib.of.Cong.ISBN-1-58235-564-9 $50).
TALA KERNAN wrote her first poem at age 6. At age 7 she and her sister Amihan launched a back-to-back chapbook of their poems and stories (bestof2worlds,'97 NYC).
Her poem in NATURE'S ECHOES:
A POEM
by Tala Kernan, 6 in '97
A girl was walking in the woods.
She found a pear tree.
She pickerd one pear.
It screamed:
"Pick someone your size!"
Another of her latest poems:
POEM 2
by Tala Kernan, 8 in '99
I am the head who eats only bodies,
I live in a chain of port-o-potties.
I'm hungry right now,
Man-bodies seem fine.
Mmm… this one is yummy—-
Ooops! It's mine!
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