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Philippine Literature Timeline

Pre-Colonial Literature Spanish Pre-revolutionary Literature (1565-1863) Spanish Revolutionary Literature (1864-1896) American Colonial Literature (1910-1945) Japanese Occupation Literature (1942-1960) Contemporary Literature (1960-Present)
(–BC to 1564)

Religious Literature Propaganda Literature Imitation/Apprenticeship Period Poetry The Woman Who Had Two Navels (Nick Joaquin)
Oral Literature
pasyon Political essays Emergence Period haiku May Day Eve (Nick Joaquin)
riddles
senakulo Diariong Tagalog (Marcelo H. del Pilar) Dead Stars (Paz Marquez-Benitez) tanka Speak Not, Speak Also (Conrado V. Pedroche)
proverbs (salawikain)
Doctrina Christiana La Solidaridad The Key (Paz Latorena) "karaniwang anyo" or common form Catholic Writer (Gregorio C. Brillantes)
tanaga
Secular Literature Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa (Marcelo H. del Pilar/Andres Bonifacio) Footnote to Youth (Jose-Garcia Villa) Short Story Isles of Gold: A History of Mining in the Philippines (Salvador P. Lopez)
Folk Songs
awit Fray Botod (Graciano Lopez-Jaena) Child of Sorrow (Zoilo Galang) Lupang Tinubuan (Narciso G. Reyes) Dekada ’70 (Lualhati Bautista)
hele or oyayi
corrido Political novels Banaag at Sikat (Lope K. Santos) Uhaw ang Tigang na Lupa (Liwayway Arceo) Tatsulok (Jose F. Lacaba)
ambahan (Mangyan)
prose narratives Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo (Dr. Jose P. Rizal) Lungsod, Nayon, at Dagat-dagatan (N.V.M. Gonzales) Para Sa Hopeless Romantic (Marcelo Santos III)
kalusan (Ivatan)
Revolutionary Literature How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife (Manuel E. Arguilla) Mga Batang Poz (Segundo Matias, Jr.)
tagay (Cebuano and Waray)
Political essays Drama Smaller and Smaller Circles (F.H. Batacan)
kanogan (Cebuano)
Kalayaan (Emilio Jacinto) Panday Pira (Jose Ma. Hernandez) ABNKKBSNPLAko?! (Bob Ong)
Folk Tales
Poetry Sa Pula, Sa Puti (Francisco Soc Rodrigo) Ligo Na U, Dito Na Me (Eros Atalia)
myths
El Verdadero Decalogo (Emilio Jacinto) Bulaga (Clodualdo del Mundo) 100 Tula Para Kay Stella (Jason Paul Laxamana)
legends
Liwanag at Dilim (Emilio Jacinto) Sino Ba Kayo? (Julian Cruz Balmaceda)
fables
Katapusang Hibik ng Pilipinas (Andres Bonifacio)
fantastic stories

epics

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