Worlds: Flight to Bilbisan

Date of Publication

2010

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

Subject Categories

Creative Writing | Fiction

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

Ma. Rosario Cruz-Lucero

Defense Panel Chair

Rolando B. Tolentino

Defense Panel Member

Leoncio Deriada
Isagani R. Cruz
Aurelio Agcaoili
Victoria Sugbo

Abstract/Summary

This dissertation is a postmodernist novel entitled, “Worlds: Flight to Bilbisan.” It is submitted with an introduction that gives the author’s creative process, and discusses how she has attempted to reclaim the voice of the epic chanter by relocating it in the novel, a western invention. The novel has an original plot and is of mixed media. It tells the story of Yaga in quest of her sweetheart, Lumawed. Indigenous materials and narrative techniques and fantastical elements from selected Mindanao epics of Central and Northern Mindanao are reinvented and retold, and are juxtaposed with illustrations, poetry, features, news stories, and special reports to show varying timelines. In her journey, Yaga discovers a world that parallels our natural world. She thinks she is an outsider of Lumawed’s tribe, Newilian, but, in fact, towards the end of the novel she realizes she is a member of the tribe too. This novel attempts to show the significance of the folk literature of Mindanao especially the folk narratives orally transmitted from one chanter to the next, and how these were used in a written work such as the novel.

Abstract Format

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Note

Novel

Language

English

Format

Electronic

Accession Number

CDTG004828

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

508 leaves, 28 cm.

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