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MINDANAO LITERATURE
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GEOGRAPHY
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GEOGRAPHY
• Mindanao is known in the Philippines as the “Land of Promise.”
• It is consisted of the major islands of Mindanao mainland,
Camiguin, Siargao, Samal, Dinagat, Bucas Grande, Basilan, Sulu,
and Tawi-Tawi.
• The island is consisted of the regions namely BARMM,
CARAGA,  Davao, Northern Mindanao, SOCCSKARGEN, and
Zamboanga Peninsula.
• Davao City is said to be the most populous place in Mindanao.
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GEOGRAPHY
• Mt. Apo in Davao is known as the highest point in the
Philippines.
• Famous local destinations are the Maria Cristina Falls,
Limunsudan Falls, Tinago Falls, Tinuy-an Falls, Lake Lanao,
Lake Sebu in South Cotabato, Agus River, Siargao, Dahilayan
Forest Park, Rio Grande River, and Enchanted River in Surigao
del Sur.
• Famous landmarks are Sunken Cemetery in Camiguin Island, The
Grand Mosque of Cotabato, Dapitan, Zamboanga City and the
Islamic City of Marawi.
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LANGUAGE
• Cebuano – generally the native language in most
regions, except for Muslim areas on the west
coast and hill tribes
• Hiligaynon
• Mandaya
• Kalangan
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THE PAST
• Each Muslim cultural community has its own inventory of folk
literature, which usually displays themes that are unique ad
peculiar, yet unified by Islamic faith.
• Oral literary forms may be didactic, hortatory, entertaining,
instructive, or informative.
• Just like the other Filipino groups that follow oral tradition,
Mindanao Muslim folk literature has a rich variety of folktales,
myths, legends, poems, epics, ballads, riddles, and proverbs.
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THE PAST
• Folktales are called differently according to the ethno-linguistic
groups and its origin:
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THE PAST
Famous folktales include:
• Agamaniyog Folktales from Maranao
• Manuk-manuk Bulawan from Indanan (also known as Agta and
Datu Dakula)
• Posong or Pusung from Tausug – stories of how Posong the
trickster has always deceived the datu and get away with it
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THE PAST
Famous epics include:
• Bantugan – Maranao epic
• Indarapatra and Sulayman – Maguindanao epic
• Parang Sabil hi Abdulla iban hi Isara – Tausug epic/ ballad
• For every folk literature such as ballads, proverbs, riddles, the
ethnic groups have their own ways of naming it.
• Most ballads are historical which feature heroic deeds of
important personalities.
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THE PRESENT
• Filipinos have lack of access to the textual materials of
the oral literature of Mindanao.
• Literature scholars concluded that the people
themselves don’t seem to realize that their cultural
products are already vanishing due to lack of literary
preservation
• People of Mindanao seem to be preoccupied in
mundane with politics and economics.
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THE PRESENT
• Modern Mindanao literature themes revolve on
topics such as war and conflict, quest for peace,
social inequality, landlessness, love of one’s land,
and others.
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THE PRESENT
• Mindanao Harvest 4: A 21st Century Literary
Anthology was published in 2018 by Far Eastern
University (FEU) Publications.
• This anthology is said to be the first comprehensive
literary anthology on Mindanao’s contemporary
literatures including 63 Mindanao writers.
• This book is edited by Jaime An Lim, Christine F.
Godinez-Ortega, and Ricardo M. de Ungria.
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PEOPLE IN MINDANAO
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PEOPLE IN MINDANAO
• Mindanao also has the largest concentration of ethnic
minorities in the Philippines. They include
the Magindanao, Maranao, Ilanun, and Sangil; all are
Muslim groups sometimes collectively called the Moro.
• Groups usually found in the uplands include the T’boli,
Subanon, Bukidnon, Bagobo, Mandaya, and Manobo.
Another important group is the Tiruray, whose religion
is a mixture of Christian, Muslim, and local beliefs.
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PEOPLE IN MINDANAO
• Mindanao Culture is both rich
and varied – A true mirror of the
people of which it is the
expression. They show not only
the Artistic Ingenuity of the
natives, but also their beliefs,
traditions and life are reflected in
them. These ethnic dances have
for long survived.
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MINDANAO LITERATURE
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MINDANAO LITERATURE
• Literature in Mindanao especially the folk literature in
cultural communities as in other Filipino groups follow
the oral tradition in that folktales, myths, legends,
epics, poems, riddles and proverbs are handed down
by word of mouth from generation to generation.
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MINDANAO LITERATURE
.Mindanao literature includes fictions, non-fictions,
proses, poetry
• Folktales
• Myths
• Legends
• Epics
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FAMOUS LITERATURE AND WRITERS IN

MINDANAO
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IBRAHIM A. JUBAIR
- Born in 1920
- best known of the older generation of English
language-educated Muslim Filipino writers and
one of the most prolific, with three volumes of
short stories published and two more collections of
unpublished material
- was editor of the Cresent Review Magazine and
the Zamboanga Collegian, as well as a columnist
for the Zamboanga City Inquirer and Muslim Times
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Author: Ibrahim A. Jubair

Title: Blue Blood of the Big Astana
Year of Publication: 1941
Genre: Epic
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IBRAHIM A. JUBAIR
- Blue Blood of the Big Astana” was published in 1941, on the eve
of World War II.
- Philippine independence was not formalized until 1946, and the
great migration of Christian Filipinos to Mindanao did not get
underway until the 1950s. But like many intellectuals and political
leaders of his generation, Jubaira advocated an integrationist
approach in the southern Philippines, believing that only a
measure of accommodation with the “Christian state” could
protect Muslims from unscrupulous newcomers.
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FAMOUS LITERATURE AND WRITERS IN

MINDANAO
Author: unknown
Title: Prince Bantugan
Genre: Epic
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Author: Bartolome Del Valle
Title: Indarapatra at Sulayman
Genre: Epic (Maguindanao)
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Author: H.O. Santos
Title: Dead Stars
Genre: Poem
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Author: unknown
Title: A Lesson for the Sultan
Genre: Maranao Folktale
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JOSELITO ASPERIN
- From Cagayan de Oro
- Poet, English-Tagalog translator, video-editor,
photographer, digital artist
- Other poems: Airplanes, Amor, For You and Me,
Lie of a Flog, The Silence of the Rose
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Author: Joselito Asperin
Title: The Land of Promise
Year of Publication: 2006 (online)
Genre: Poem
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