This follow-through develops Patke's characterization of Jose Garcia Villa as a heroic figure by an account of the reception to his poetry in the Philippines since World War II. Villa's insistence on the primacy of art alienated him from critics in the late sixties and seventies who saw him as a ";;mental colony.";; Later postcolonial criticism, however, allowed for a more favourable interpretation of Villa.

Kritika Kultura, Issue 9, November 2007 pp.27-33

DOI: 10.3860/kk.v9i0.455