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SIGNIFICANCE OF "COUNTING" THE WORDS BY BENEDICT ANDERSON
People of complete Spanish descent
Disappears entirely in El Filibusterismo
Refers to the native class of Filipinos
A synonym for Indio/India
-Geographic bias in favor of Luzon is obvious, and reminiscent of what we observed in Noli.
-No saints are mentioned at all.
-Lost interest in Catholicism, even in a polemical sense.
“…despite the racist censorship involved, the chatter between the candy-vendor and her customer shows that we are in the presence of a real, Hokkien-inflected lingua franca for the streets of manila, egalitarianly shared by poor vendors and their elite students customers. A patois, yes,…but also an instrument of social communication and not an emblem of political shame. The Noli contains nothing like this”
RIZAL THE REALIST AND BONIFACIO THE IDEALIST
SIMOUN IS NOT INHERENTLY REVOLUTIONARY
REVOLUTION AND REBELLION
P. 68-73
P. 62-67
p. 56-61
WORDS OF SIMOUN TO BASILIO
P. 74-78
-Avoided everything that had any connection with rebellion
-He feared revolution, but secretly desired it.
GENEALOGY OF THE WORD "FILIBUSTERO"
FILIBUSTERING: AMERICA’S MANIFEST DESTINY
-Early seafarers were known in the English speaking world as “manilamen”
-Manilamen sailors were involved in the whaling industry
-Untold number of seafarers opted to settle down in different foreign locations rather than returning to the Spanish Philippines.
-Boundary maintenance between men and officers was the essence of life aboardship
-Hypolite Bouchard led two ships in a siege of Monterey , California for 30 days with the goal of liberating California.
-Involvement in Frederick Townsend Ward’s militia
-Filibustero as a badge of honor, Rizal used the image of the filibustero to conjure a possibly explosive end of Spanish rule in the Philippines.
-Rizal uncannily called upon the imagery of American filibusters who longed for the Island’s independence but with a twist.
-Despite the variance the figure of the filibustero in the Fili bore traces of the author’s real life and nonfictional texts.