I often wonderd why books written by Filipinos are in a separate section in bookstores? Is it a genre of its own? Why not placing the individual book in a genre section where it truely belong?
“Filipinos donβt read” https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/balikbayan/voices/46522-filipinos-reading-literature
Ang middle to upper class ayaw matawag na jologs kaya hindi nag babasa ng Tagalog.
Ang middle to upper class na nasa rich school hindi nagbabasa ng pinoy english literature kasi hindi ina-assign ng teacher na burgis.
Middle to upperclass na na assign ng pinoy english lit eh see these authors as assigments.
Ang masa walang pera pambili ng libro. Walang oras pumunta ng national library para mang hiram. At ang mga baranggay walang public libraryο»Ώ
Wouldn’t it be much easier to find kung may sarili sya category? Filipiniana. It’s the same if it were Japanese, of Korean, or if you were at Kinokuniya looking for English books.
Ang difference kasi, yung international books may translated local language sa kinokuniya
A compromise then: place books in as many shelves. For me, natatabunan ang Filipino spec fic sa mga contemporary lit na karamihan na nasa Filipiniana shelves.
At least man lang malapit sa graphic novel shelves ang mga pinoy komiks collection.
Pinoy lit should be put on both filipiniana & their corresponding genre.
Also pinoy lit should be marketed outside the country.
I agree, dapat nama-market na rin outside of the Philippines ang Pinoy lit. Crossing fingers.
isama na rin siguro ‘yung dami ng mga napo-produce (at napo-promote na pinoy lit) sa mga major bookstores sa bansa. kayang kainin, let’s say, ng buong nancy drew series ang mga libro na pinoy na nalathala sa taong 2013.
Or ng sweet valley