The Teleserye as Literature and Pangako Sa ‘Yo

• Main Author: Sanchez, Louie Jon A
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: teleserye; Pangako Sa 'Yo; literariness; popular culture; literature; Broadcast and Video Studies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies; Television
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/154; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-4720-1_9
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In this chapter, Louie Jon A. Sánchez explores the logic of “appealing to literature,” the use of literary lenses, in the study of the “teleserye” or Filipino TV soap opera, rooted in the concept and social functions of literature in the Philippines. Through a reading of the wildly popular teleserye...