This Month Years Ago
The Young Citizen was an illustrated monthly magazine for first, second, and third-grade students. Most of its content was related to the education of the young Filipinos in civil virtues. It included sections on the learning of English, natural sciences, literature and history, and included poems and short stories for children.
One of its sections, “This Month Years Ago”, remembered historical events each month. On this issue, the column remembered the Filipino Revolutionary Congress held in the church of Barasoain. Shortly after the Tydings–McDuffie Act of 1934, which inaugurated the transition period to independence, The Young Citizen affirmed that the republic constituted by the Malolos constitution under the leadership of Emilio Aguinaldo would rise in ten years hence, therefore connecting the periods before and after American colonization without questioning the effect it would have in Filipino institutional and political life. This early but also seemingly hurtless vindication of Malolos after one generation of Americanization suggests how the very meaning of the event and the sovereignty it demonstrated had changed, and the modernity it had explicitly sought to demonstrate from Asia and in Spanish came now from America and was in English.
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Fecha
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1935-08
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Fuente
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"This Month Years Ago", The Young Citizen, vol. 1, num. 8, September 1935, p. 219. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Relación
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Ancheta, María Rhodora G. y Buenconsejo, José S. 2017. Philippine Modernities: Music, performing arts and language, 1880–1941. Quezon City: University of Philippines Press.
Torres, Cristina Evangelista. 2010. The Americanization of Manila, 1898-1921. Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines 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
