Ilocano literature

Geographical Location Northern Luzon

Language Iloko
Ethnicity Ilocano

Evolutions Genres or forms of Culture and Traditions Representative Texts Authors Significant
Literature Contributions
 Pre-colonial  Folk songs,  Ancient
riddles, Ilokano poets
proverbs, and expressed
epic themselves in
folk and war
songs.

 Spanish  Poems, Folk  Iloko poetry

songs, riddles, was patterned
proverbs, and after Spanish
epic models.

 American  Poem, short  Missionaries  Christianity

stories, and used religious
novels as well as
seculars
literatures
among other
means to
advance their
missions of
converting the
ilokanos to
Christianity
 Japanese  Novenas,
dramas,
biographies,
comedy,
melodrama,
comic opera,
and skit

 Post War  Short stories,  More intense

dramas, in literary
fiction, activity.

 Contemporary  Novels, songs,

Short stories,
dramas,
fiction, skit,
comedy,
melodrama
 Cebuano literature
Geographical Location
Language
Ethnicity

Evolutions Genres or forms of Culture and Traditions Representative Texts Authors Significant
Literature Contributions
 Pre-colonial  Fables and  Most of the  BAybayin
legends literature
produced was
oral.

 Spanish  Novenas and  The religious  Vicente sotto,

gozos theme is father of
predominant Cebuano
literature

 American  Novels  Suga became  Florentino

the medium Rallos,
for the Filomeno
publication of Veloso,
Cebuano MArcial
writers. Velez,Vicente
RAnudo, and
etc.
 Japanese
 Post War
 Contemporary