1569 In a document promulgated in Madrid, the Spanish King name Miguel Lopez de Legazpi “Governor and Captain General of the Island of Cebu and all the other settlements which you (Legazpi) or any other person whatsoever may hereafter make in the islands.” 1595 Pope Clement VII issues a bull dividing the Philippine see […]
Tag: 2022 November
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2022 November
“WRITING ‘ARKIPELAGO’: A novel’s claim at complexity” Januar Yap ABSTRACT: Philippine literary canon had for the most part insufficiently if not misrepresented a highly archipelagic nation of over 7,100 islands by its “landlocked” and centripetal imaginaries. The islands and their complex connectivities should have been the rule rather than the exception. Deeply embedded in Philippine […]