Tongues of Trauma: Narrating through Code-Switching Typhoon Haiyan in Daryll Delgado's Remains

• Main Author: Claros, Ian Harvey A.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: code-switching; Haiyan; novel; Philippine literature; trauma; Waray; Arts and Humanities; Creative Writing; Fiction; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/116; https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae003
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article explores the deliberate use of code-switching in Daryll Delgado's novel Remains (2019), which narrates the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Through this reading, I argue that the alternation of various languages such as Filipino, Waray and English in the novel enhanc...