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Pedro A. Paterno
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cholera
Colonial Critique
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Cultural Heritage
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Filipino Identity
Filipino Literature
first novel by a filipino author
Historical Fiction
Indigenous Culture
jose rizal
Language_English
Literary Romanticism
Love and Tragedy
Nationalism
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Philippine Literature in Spanish
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Spanish Colonial Period
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781513138510
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: West Margin Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

Published just two years before José Rizal’s national epic, Touch Me Not, Pedro A. Paterno’s Nínay is a cultural novel that portrays Philippine society to an international non-Filipino audience.

Considered to be the first novel published by a Native Filipino author, Nínay follows the life, love and death of a young woman named Antonina Milo y Buisan, or “Nínay” for short. Her story is told by a young man named Taric to an unknown narrator over the course of the nine-day vigil of Pasiyam. Recounting the passionate affair in the time of cholera between Nínay and the highly regarded Don Carlos Mabagsic, Taric explores the journey of two young lovers and the events that lead to their eventual separation.

Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this edition of Nínay is a reimagining of a Filipino classic for the modern reader.
About Pedro A. Paterno
Pedro A. Paterno (1857 - 1911) was a Filipino poet, novelist, and politician, infamous for being a turncoat. Born in Manila, Paterno was born into a large family of thirteen children to his father, Don Máximo Paterno and his second wife, Doña Carmen de Vera Ignacio. Considered to be a "child of privilege in a society of limited opportunities,” Paterno enjoyed a certain degree of notability after finishing his studies at Ateneo de Manila University. At just fourteen of age, he left his home country to study in Spain at the University of Salamanca and later the Central University of Madrid. Over the next twenty-two years, Paterno would immerse himself in Spanish culture, producing his first literary work, Influencia Social del Cristianismo, and being awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 1893. It was during this time that Paterno would publish his most famous work, Nínay. Predating what would later come to be known as the National Epic of the Philippines, Touch Me Not, Nínay would make history as the first novel written by a Native Filipino. Despite this accolade, Paterno’s legacy would be forever stained by his actions in the trial of José Rizal and with the Philippine Revolutionary Society thereafter. Accused of inciting a Philippine revolutionary group called the Katipunan through his literature, Paterno opted to distance himself from the group and instead offer his services to mediate the tension between the remaining revolutionaries who resided in the village of Biak-na-Bato and the Spanish government. While Paterno was able to negotiate a truce between the two parties (effectively ending the Philippine Revolution), he was essentially abandoned by his people for selling out his country to foreign interests. He died alone of cholera on April 26, 1911.

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