Turban Legends

An Analysis of a 21st Century Philippine                           Literature entitled 

Turban Legend [Excerpt from Leche]

             By R. Zamora Linmark

BACKGROUND

• Authorial information:

o Poetry,  Novelist, and Playwright 

o Born in Manila, Philippines 

o Raised and Educated on Honolulu, Hawaii

o Recipient of a Japan-United States Friendship Commission 

o Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry(2001)

o Fulbright Foundation Senior Lecturer/Researcher in the Philippines (2005-2006) 

o Distinguished Visiting Professor in creative writing in Universities in the United States and the Philippines

o His works include Prime-Time Apparitions (2005), The Evaluation of a sigh(200), Drive-By Vigils (2011)  Rolling the R’s(1995), Leche (2011) And the Importance of Being Wilde at Heart (2019)

ANALYSIS

° A literary genre is a category of literary composition 

° Genres may be determined by literary techniques, tone, content, or even length

° Genre should not be confused with age category

° The most general genres in literature are epic, tragedy, comedy, novel, short story, and creative nonfiction 

° They can all be in the genres prose or poetry, which shows best how loosely genres are defined 

° Literary genre can be applied in different literature, arround Philippines and arround world

° It must have the right and valid literature category to be easy to distinguish what literary genre it is 

Analysis Guides  

°The story/anecdote Turban Legends is all about the story of the man who fall on his own death due to homesickness that causes him to having hypothermia

°Significance of story is all about the culture and traits of the OFW

Reader Response

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Plot and Structure

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Setting

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Tone

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Character

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Point of View

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Diction and Style

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Images and Symbols

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Sound Effects

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Structure of the Text

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Purpose

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Viewpoint/Tone

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Techniques

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Theme

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Contextual Analysis

° Using sociocultural context, it can be concluded that the story/anecdote is all about how they lived in abroad and what they experiences while they are working far away from their families.

° Even they are far from their families they always remembering them through balikbayan boxes during special holidays and occasions.

° Through the balikbayan boxes, we can say that being far from the families are nor hindrance to show our love and care for them.

SUMMARY

° The story “Turban Lengend” entails the Filipino OFW’ experiences while they are working far away from their families.

° The life of being an OFW.

° Experience homesickness and sometimes they feels lack of love and care due to missing their family and love ones.

° Not all Filipino’s overseas wanted to work abroad, the reason why they work abroad is due to poverty and insufficient money for the needs of their family.

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