Andrés Bonifacio
The Philippines Boy Scout was one of the first juvenile publications of the Philippines in English. It was created in November 1929 as the magazine of the Philippines Boy Scout movement with Jose P. Giron as its editor. Its objective was to address the young Filipino with stories that were not imported from abroad, offering thrill, inspiration, and information with a “local color” and “characters from an environment akin to his”. It informed on the acts of the Philippines boy scouts but also included excerpts of lectures and other useful information, short stories, and the column Poet’s corner.
It is significant that already in its first number, Aguedo Cagiñgin, a high school principal, mentioned the figure of Andrés Bonifacio, the founder of the Katipunan. Cagiñgin argued that it couldn't be contested that he was a patriot whose life was dedicated to his country and praised his virtues. Nevertheless, as in the case of other revolutionaries, his life was interpreted “in terms of the platform of the greatest boy organization in the world” and therefore, in an idea of the country overtly pro-American. Contradictorily, Bonifacio died to save the country, but young Filipinos still were training for citizenship.
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Fecha
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1929-11
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Fuente
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Cagiñgin, Aguedo. “Andrés Bonifacio”. The Philippine Boy Scout, num. 1 vol I, November 1929, p. 5. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Relación
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Bator, Stefanie. 2012. “Toward Filipino Self-Rule: American Reform Organizations and American Colonialism in the Philippines, 1898–1946.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Honeck, Mischa. 2018. Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy. Cornell University Press.
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Emilio Vivó Capdevila
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Idioma
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English
