Snapshots of a Literary Friendship: Francisco Arcellana and Jose Garcia Villa

Accounts of literary friendships provide one with material for literary scholarship. This paper presents “snapshots” of the friendship of Francisco Arcellana (1917–2002) and Jose Garcia Villa (1908– 97). Arcellana and Villa’s friendship bears indelible traces of Philippine literary history at large;...

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Main Author: Chua, Jonathan O
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/17
https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/apah/article/view/2837
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Institution: Ateneo De Manila University
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Summary:Accounts of literary friendships provide one with material for literary scholarship. This paper presents “snapshots” of the friendship of Francisco Arcellana (1917–2002) and Jose Garcia Villa (1908– 97). Arcellana and Villa’s friendship bears indelible traces of Philippine literary history at large; to look at the microcosm that is their friendship is also to get a glimpse of a macrocosm of relations, forces, and movements that have constituted Philippine literature.