Jos Garcia Villa is best known as a modernist Filipino poet who migrated to America in the 1930s. Much critical discussion of Villa in Philippine literary studies has emphasised his narrow concern with aestheticism and his rejection of contemporary demands to politicise artistic production. This paper returns to Villa's first short story collection Footnote of Youth (1933) and argues for a reconsideration of the politics of Villa's modernist aesthetics. In particular, I wish to concentrate on a series of short stories at the end of the collection that present revisionary 'shadow biographies' of revolutionary hero Jos Rizal, whose own life story and novels have attained, in Carol Hau 's words, the status of 'master-narratives' of the Philippine nation, with Rizal himself portrayed as the 'First Filipino'. Apart from engaging in translation across language in a multilingual environment, the short stories are translations in a larger sense. They re-present elements of longer narratives such as biography and indeed the 'biographisation of the social' deployed by the colonial and bourgeois national states in a consciously fragmentary form. Furthermore, they map such biographies onto the lives of ordinary Filipinos in a manner that destabilises them: on a rational level, the claims of filiation made in these stories are preposterous, yet the narrative and literary economies of the texts encourage readerly identification with their subaltern protagonists. In exploring the space of contradiction that Villa's stories occupy, and the manner in which their formal qualities enable a reappraisal of this space, this paper also to makes a larger argument concerning the frequently neglected centrality of the short story and life-writing in exploring national imaginaries under late colonialism, and encourages reflection on the manner in which biographisation is an unacknowledged subtext in contemporary postcolonial literary studies.

The introduction of the story entitled Footnote to Youth, written by Jose Garcia, states that a seventeen year old boy named Dodong wanted to marry Teang. He asked his father's permission but was not allowed to.

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The question is not clear however in the question that is linked there is a very comprehensive summary and discussion about this book which I hope assists the original questioner who is encouraged to reword this question if the information desired is not available there.

Dodong and Teang live happily ever after..

It was a story of a boy who was only 17 when he decides to marry his love one.

He was dodong, and he love teang so much that he could not wait for the right age to settle down in a relationship that is hard to escape. It's the "marriage". At the age of 17 dodong and teang got married without thinking of the risk being in an uneasy part of life. They just follow what they feel. They don't think what would happen in their future. They got a child. Teang realized how hard being a young parent. Her regret of she had done and think, what would be my life if i marry my other suitors instead of dodong? Can I have the same life as of now? She regrets so much of!!

Until one day, when their son grow. He follows the footsteps of his parents. He wants to marry also at the age of 17. He told his parents what his plans. Dodong have nothing to do but explain how hard and how risky to be in "marriage "at the young age.. But like dodong before, his son also wants to pursue what he wants.

The lesson we can learn is that marriage can wait the right time, if we want to be in this stage of life, we must prepare ourselves against the risk of it. I know we can all be in to it if we like too but not at the young age.

This would be a lesson for youth like me. Jose Garcia villa is a great write coz aside from having nice story; he also had the point of view where we can have the knowledge of something related to what will happen to us.

to know what is the relevance of title, you first need to define what is a footnote

footnotes are tiny notes placed at the bottom of a page of a book or manuscript that comments on or cites a reference for a designated part of the text which gives a better insight of what the page is about.

it was name Footnote to Youth because in the same sense, it was somekind of a reference to the youth to learn things which are far broader than their knowledge.Using the word footnote to compare the lesson in the story, J.G Villa had managed to emphasized that the lesson was often neglected by teens which are the same with footnotes.Because they are too small, we tend to skip by them.

whoooh kea nga tinatanong dba....?

Plot:

Dodong wanted to marry Teang and asked his father's permission. Thinking that since they are young, their love would be short, he allowed them to get married. After nine months, Teang gave birth to a child named Blas. For six consecutive years, a new child came along. Teang did not complain even thought she secretly regretted being married at an early age. Sometimes she even wondered if she would have the same life if Lucio, her other suitor who was nine years older than Dodong, was the one she married. Lucio has had no children since the time he married. When Teang and Dodong were twenty they looked like they were fifty.

When Blas was 18, he told his father that he would marry Tona. Dodong did not object, but tried to make Blas think twice before rushing to marriage - because Dodong doesn't want Blas to end up like him.

Footnote to Youth explores the troubles that come with getting married young and making decisions that affect your entire life before you are old enough or wise enough to understand the consequences. The story talks about earning wisdom through age.

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The short story "Footnote to Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa is set on a farm. The family unit is also an important part of the setting.

his father was sorry for Dodong's decision to marry Teang because he already knows how's life after marrying so early. He doesn't want his son to suffer like him...

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BE WISE AND CONSIDER WHAT'S LIFE YOU WILL HAVE IN THE FUTURE RATHER THAN FOLLOWING HEART THAT LEAD TO NOTHING By:madonnabanzon@yahoo.com life is not a game it is a responsibilities by:responsible_snabera@yahoo.com

what is the rising action in the story of footnote to youth

Teenagers nowadays marry at the early ways,not knowing the consequences of what is like to be an adult and building up your own family.Actually,It is hard to be a parent that young ones doesn't even realize that.

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