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    The document discusses literature from different regions of the Philippines. It focuses on Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. For Luzon, it mentions influential English writers like Jose Garcia Villa, Nick Joaquin, and F. Sionil Jose. It discusses the Visayas' earliest literary works being in a mix of forms. For Mindanao, it notes the region is home to many ethnic groups including Lumads, Muslims, and Christian settlers, and that literature from there often deals with conflicts.

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    The document discusses literature from different regions of the Philippines. It focuses on Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. For Luzon, it mentions influential English writers like Jose Garcia Villa, Nick Joaquin, and F. Sionil Jose. It discusses the Visayas' earliest literary works being in a mix of forms. For Mindanao, it notes the region is home to many ethnic groups including Lumads, Muslims, and Christian settlers, and that literature from there often deals with conflicts.

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    The document discusses literature from different regions of the Philippines. It focuses on Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. For Luzon, it mentions influential English writers like Jose Garcia Villa, Nick Joaquin, and F. Sionil Jose. It discusses the Visayas' earliest literary works being in a mix of forms. For Mindanao, it notes the region is home to many ethnic groups including Lumads, Muslims, and Christian settlers, and that literature from there often deals with conflicts.

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    HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO

    THE DEVELOPMENT OF
    LOCAL LITERATURE
     Do you know of any literature writer who came from
    your city, hometown, or province?

    This person may have been born or relocated where


    you live. Literary writers have enriched our Filipino
    Culture, and their works introduce something vital in
    exploring our humanity.

    As readers, it is our turn to discover the writers in our


    places produced, for in so doing we preserve the heritage
    of our country’s literary arts
    THE REGIONS IN FOCUS:
    SELECTED
    CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
    LUZON: GENRES OF URBAN WRITING

     The most populous island group in the Philippines


     Almost half of the ethnic groups of the Philippines ae found in
    Luzon
     These ethnic groups use these major regional languages:
     Tagalog
     Ilocano
     Kapampangan
     Bicolano
     Pangasinense
     English is of course widely used

    Jose Garcia Villa, Nick Joaquin, and F. Sionil Jose – most


    influential writers in English Language came from Luzon
    HOMEWORK:
     Read “ FLOWERS IN THE CRYPT” by Catherina
    Garcia Dario

    This is a work of CREATIVE NONFICTION


    Creative Nonfiction – as define by LEE GUTKIND
    > a literary work that “ can be an essay, a journal
    article, research paper, a memoir, or a poem
    The words “ creative” and “nonfiction” describe the form

    Creative Nonfiction
    Refers to the use of Factually, accurate
    literary craft, the prose about real people
    techniques fiction and events, in a
    writers, playwrights compelling, vivid,
    and poets dramatic manner.
    VISAYAS: HYBRID MODES IN LOCAL COLOR

     One of the longest known epics in the world is the ethno-


    epic HINILAWOD of the ancient people of Sulod in Central
    Panay,
     The only epic recorded in the Visayas
     Recorded in the 1950s by Anthopologist F. LANDA
    JOCANO – who hails from the province of Iloilo
     The first literary works in the Visayas were a miscellany of
    these forms: the immensely popular LAGDA SA PAGCA
    MALIGDON SA TAUONG BISAYA(1734) and another
    Cebuano work, by Fr. Blas Cavada de Castro – ANG SUGA
    NGA MAGADAN-AG SA NAGAPUYO SA
    CANGITNGITAN SA SALA (1879)
    MINDANAO: LITERATURES OF CONFLICT

     Mindanao – is home to thirty-three ethnolinguistic groups,


    thirteen of which are Islamized, nineteen are Lumad or
    Indigenous groups, and Christian Settlers composed of
    third and fourth-generation migrants from Luzon and
    Visayas
     The Lumads are our prehistoric forebears; around the 14th
    Century AD some of them converted to Islam thus evolving
    into a distinct entity, the Muslims, who formed their
    Sultanates. These Muslim states – the Sultanate of Sulu
    and the Sultanate of Maguindanao – were formed before
    the unification of the islands was undertaken by the
    Spanish

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