The Last Bakunawa: Self-translation with Notes

• Main Author: Derain, Allan N
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: bakunawa; datu; trade; Fiction; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/94; https://ajol.ateneo.edu/kk/articles/254/2763
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

“The Last Bakunawa” is a historic fantasy set in Himamaylan; a precolonial kingdom in Negros. It highlights the political economy of the said chiefdom and its surrounding territories where Datu Rabat; the protagonist of the narrative; aims to position himself as a big man in the Sino-Southeast Asian...