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Contemporary literature is a vast group of written works produced from a specific time in history through the current age. This literary era defines a time period, but it also describes a particular style and quality of writing.
Most agree that the era of contemporary writing began in the 1940s. A few scholars claim this period started at the end of World War II, and this is where the era's pairing with postmodern literature comes in. The postmodern era began after WWII, in the 1940s, and lasted through the 1960s.
Contemporary literature is a kind of poetry which uses colloquial language and tend to be written based on experiences.
Here are some of the Contemporary Literatures from the Mindanao and the respected authors who wrote it with all of their heart.
First, Waking Ice:Poems (2000) by Ricardo M. De Ungria wherein it is a poem about a narrative from a father to a son.
Second is Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh / Green Sanctuary (1981) by Antonio Enriquez is a book about a group of surveyor that creates triangulation towers around Linguasan Marsh.
Thirdly, The Poverty of a Woman Who turned herself into Stone written by Lina Sangral Reyes, it tells us about the character who became stone as a result of its struggle.
And last but not the least, Age of Blight wrote by Kristine Ong Muslim, it is a literature about the scientist who does a harsh experiment towards monkeys.
Waking Ice Poems (2000) by
Ricardo M.
De Ungria
Waking Ice records, a father's spirals of emotions as he tries to understand and weather his son's addiction, attempts at recovery, and inevitable self-destruction. In a sequence of chiseled poems addressed mostly to his son, the poet memorializes a wide range of complex emotions dealing with fatherhood, sonship, and loss, and uses a variety of poetic styles to chart the gamut of his experience. Here is language brought woundingly close to real life and silence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
He graduated with a BA in Literature, cum laude, a degree from the De La Salle University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, United States in 1990 when he was awarded a Fulbright grant. He received writing residency fellowships at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in 1991 and the Bellagio Study of Conference Center in 1993. In 1999, he moved to Davao City to become the first dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of the newly established University of the Philippines Mindanao campus.
Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh / Green Sanctuary (1981) by
Antonio Enriquez
In Green Sanctuary, Antonio Reyes Enriquez, a Palanca Awardee from Zamboanga, describes the verdant landscape of Liguasan, Cotabato, that is teeming with natural resources. Originally titled Surveyors of the Green Marsh, Green Sanctuary follows the story of Alberto Gonzalez and his team who work as surveyors of the marsh for a project that is supposed to benefit the people in Liguasan constantly fear the ambush of the Moros. In many ways, the novel shows a honest portrayal of the lives of people in Mindanao. Green Sanctuary is a realistic presentation of the social realities in Mindanao.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Antonio Reyes Enriquez is the author of several books of short stories. He was born in Barangay Labuan, Zamboanga City in 1936. He was educated at a local Jesuit school in Zamboanga. His parents wanted him to study medicine and sent him to a university in Manila, but after several years, he returned to Zamboanga City without a college degree. Enriquez later did various jobs like writing a piece of news and other features for various newspapers and magazines. He also joined a surveying company in Cotabato where his experience provided him settings and characters for his novel Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh. Antonio Enriquez won a writing fellowship award which brought him to Siliman University where he graduated with a liberal degree in creative writing. In 1982 and 1993, Enriquez won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Grand Prize for Literature. The Palanca Award is considered the most prestigious award for Literature in the country.
Age of Blight
by
Kristine Ong Muslim
In Age of Blight, a young scientist's harsh and unnecessary experiments on monkeys are recorded for posterity; children are replaced by their doppelgangers, which emerge like flowers in their backyards; and two men standing on opposing cliff faces bear witness to each other's terrifying ends.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(September 18, 1980) is an author, translator, and anthologist who grew up and continues to live in a rural town in the Southern Philippines. Her books include The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), and Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015). Widely anthologized, Muslim’s short stories were published in Conjunctions, Dazed Digital, and World Literature Today and translated into Bulgarian, French, Polish, and Serbian. She co-edited the British Fantasy Award-winning Anthology People of Colour Destroy Science Fiction! (2016) and Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021). She is also the translator of many bilingual editions, including Marlon Hacla’s Melismas (Oomph Press, 2020) and Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles’s Twelve Clay Birds: Selected Poems (University of the Philippines Press, 2021) and Three Books (Broken Sleep Books, 2020). With Gutierrez Mangansakan II, she edits the Bangsamoro Literary Review. ​An editor for the poetry section of the now-defunct LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, she guest-edited literary folios for Anomaly and Loch Raven Review, as well as a special issue with Kristian Sendon Cordero for Words Without Borders.
