Originally submitted as thesis entitled: Writing literary history and the mode of economic production : 20th century Waray poetry.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction

The Leyte ilustrados and their durogas

The Siday as mass culture of Monopoly capital

Split modernity : the modernist poetry of the academe

The songs and the poetry of the revolutionary movement

Waray poetry and monopoly capital : a summary

Waray poetry from the colonial, semifeudal era to the semicolonial, semifeudal era: a conclusion

ReHistosricizing histories and literature

The Satires

The radia Siday

Modernist poetry

Revolutionary poetry