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José Rizal was a prominent Filipino nationalist leader, writer, and doctor who was executed by the Spanish in 1896 for inspiring the Philippine Revolution. Considered a national hero, his Spanish-language novels Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo remain classics of Philippine literature. Anderson cites Noli Me Tángere and the last poem that Rizal wrote before his execution as exemplars of nationalist literature.
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José Rizal Character Timeline in Imagined Communities
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Chapter 2: Cultural Roots
Anderson’s first example is the opening passage of Filipino writer José Rizal ’s 1887 novel Noli Me Tangere, written in Spanish (the colonial language), in which anonymous...
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Chapter 8: Patriotism and Racism
...and art. To illustrate this point, he looks back at the writings of Filipino nationalist José Rizal , and specifically his last poem, an optimistic ode to his country that does not...
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