A Reaction to "Modernist Poetic Practices in English Poetry from Southeast Asia: A Comparison Between Jose Garcia Villa and Arthur Yap"

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Chua, Jonathan
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• الموضوعات: Philippine poetry; postcolonial poetry; Singapore poetry
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss9/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1125/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n09_2007_5D_202.2_Article_Chua.pdf
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

This follow-through develops Patke’s characterization of Jose Garcia Villa as a heroic figure by an account of the reception to his poetry in the Philippines since World War II. Villa’s insistence on the primacy of art alienated him from critics in the late sixties and seventies who saw him as a “me...