Literature like painting, and any other art form, is said to be universal. It is still a human labor done
by a particular artist, for e.g. in the case of
men; it belongs to a particular man located in a particular country or
of a particular country. Now this man, in his works, recreates the world he has in hand and sees it in terms of his own particular comprehension. Then he has a scale of truly feeling and so truly knowing. The artist belongs surely in his own time and in his own country. The man, in this discourse, is the Filipino artist/writer himself and this art that belongs to his native land: is Filipino Art/
Literature.
Man naturally likes to simplify things, to look at single causes, to focus on definitions. This is a great drive of thought but spitefully complex in our history. Something diverse and manifold as to analyze our country's literature, to feel the depth of all kinds of perspectives and approaches can indeed be difficult and would probably lead us to more trouble, problems and confusion; whereas merely sitting and being uninvolved gives us isolation at one meaning. To analyze literature, it all depends on the person himself and his feelings. Certain types of narratives, one will find in history, have captured the imagination of modern people also. These writers had the intention of striving to make their works a part of history,and we must recognize that history bears a tradition of past arts. It is hard to for us to cover history but the severe quality of this task becomes tolerable when one begins to understand that Filipinos try to relate almost everything that they occasion for the arts, to Filipino culture.
Artists, specifically authors, persevere not to copy foreign culture, which is virtuous, something good, and
something to be appreciated. We have a historical past whereby people can listen to and see the people of the
past. Why should one study the female characterizations of male authors (whose works became popular more
than fifty years ago, starting from the 1930's to the modern period)-writers who painted the Filipino woman with
words within the province of representational art as opposed to non-representational art? The former bears the
singularity of being categorized as art that involves the human being as defined by metaphysics; the substantial
order of being human, the human as an animate figure whereas the latter is antithetical. Because the past can be
new.