Reading List for Creative Writing Majors Undergraduate Program, DECL,
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
Here are novels, short
stories and poems undergraduates taking up Creative Writing have to read during
their four-year stay at the University of the Philippines. Filipino writers need
to immerse themselves in the history of Philippine literature. Otherwise, one
runs the risk of not sounding Filipino anymore. My wife and I will attempt to
read the things you find here... over time. Wish us luck!
Page Maintained by: Manuel Viloria of http://www.viloria.com/ Last Update: June
1, 2000 Posted by permission of Prof. J. Wendell Capili (College of Arts and
Letters)
Fiction
(Novels and Short Stories)
Javellana, Stevan - Without Seeing the Dawn (novel)
Joaquin, Nick - The Woman Who Had Two Navels (novel)
Santos, Bienvenido - The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor
(novel)
Gonzales, NVM - A Season of Grace (novel)
Joaquin, Nick - Choose 3 stories from either
Prose and Poems
Tropical Gothic
Santos, Bienvenido - 3 stories from You
Lovely People or The Day the Dancers Came or Brother My Brother Gonzalez,
NVM - 3 stories from Bread of Salt or Look Stranger on this Island Now or
Children of the Ash-Colored Loam
Arcellana, Francisco - 5 stories from The Francisco Arcellana Sampler
Alfon, Estrella - 3 short stories from Magnificence or Stories Jose,
F. Sionil - 3 short stories from Waywaya or Platinum
Benitez, Paz Marquez - 2 stories Sulit, Loreto Paras - 2 stories
Latorena, Paz - 2 stories Arguilla, Manuel - 4 short stories from How
My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife
Tiempo, Edith - Blade of Fern (novel)
Polotan, Kerima - The Hand of the Enemy (novel)
Bulosan, Carlos - America is in the Heart (autobiography/novel)
Brillantes, Gregorio - 5 short stories from The Distance to Andromeda and
the Apollo Centennial Fernando, Gilda Cordero - 5 short stories from
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker or A Wilderness of Sweets (both books are
re-issued as Story Collection)
Polotan, Kerima - 3 stories from Stories Rosa, Ninotchka - 3 stories
from Bitter Country or Monsoon Collection Hidalgo, Cristina - 3 stories
from either
Ballad of a Lost Season
Tales for a Rainy Night
Where Only the Moon Rages
Rosca, Ninotchka - State of War (novel)
Yuson, Alfred - The Great Philippine Jungle Energy Cafe (novel)
Castillo, Erwin - The Firewalkers (both the nouvella and the stories
included in this book)
Hidalgo, Cristina - Recuerdo (novel)
Dalisay, Jose V. - Killing Time in a Warm Place (novel)
Gamalinda, Eric - Confessions of a Volcano (novel)
Dalisay, Jose - 3 stories from Old Timer or Sarcophagus or Penmanship
Gamalinda, Eric - 3 stories from Peripheral Visions Ong, Charlson - 5
stories from Men of the East or Woman of Amkaw or Conversion
Enriquez, Antonio - 3 stories from Spots On Their Wings or The Night I Cry
Casper, Lindy Ty - 3 stories from Common Continent or Hazards of Distance
Dayrit, Joy - 3 stories from The Walk
2 stories each from the following writers - 10 stories total Rotor,
Arturo - The Wound and the Scar or The Men Who Play God Tiempo, Edith -
Abide, Joshua Ford, Aida Rivera - The Chiefest Mourner Ayala, Tita
Lacambra - Pieces of String Torrevillas, Rowena Tiempo - Among the Willows
Not part of the original reading list, but Manuel decided to put it in
anyway:
Sitoy, Lakambini - Mens Rea and Other Stories
Essays and Non-Fiction Narratives
2 selections each by 10 of these
writers - 20 essays total
Lopez, S.P. - Literature and Society
Icasiano, F.B. - Horizons From My Nipa Hut
Cristobal, Adrian - Pasquinades
Ventura, Sylvia - Ragtime in Kamuning
de Quiros, Conrad - Flowers from the Rubble or Dance of the Dunces
Nakpil, Carmen Guerrero - Woman Enough or A Question of Identity
Polotan, Kerima - Author's Choice or Adventures in a Forgotten Country
Mayuga, Sylvia - Spy In My Own Country or Essays For A Decade
Zafra, Jessica - Twisted or Womanagerie or Twisted Too
Dalisay, Jose Y. - The Best of Barfly
Hidalgo, Cristina
I Remember
Five Years in a Forgotten Land
Skyscrapers Celadon and Kimchi
The Path of the Heart
Garcellano, Rosario - Mean Streets
Ocampo, Ambeth
Bonifacio's Bolo
Aguinaldo's Breakfast
Mabini's Ghost
Abad, Gemino - State of Play
Drama
Joaquin, Nick - Portrait of the Artist As Filipino
One of the following plays:
Guerrero, Wilfrido Ma. - Condemned; Wanted A Chaperone