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Examples of pre-colonial African literature are numerous. In Ethiopia, there is a substantial literature written in Ge'ez going back at least to the fourth century AD; the best-known work in this tradition is the Kebra Negast, or "Book of Kings." One popular form of traditional African folktale is the "trickster" story, in which a small animal ...
Other forms of literature written by pre-colonial Ilocano were songs (kankanta), dances (salsala), poems (dandaniw), riddles (burburtia), proverbs (pagsasao), and lamentations (dung-aw). Other traditional Filipino epics by other ethnicities include the Hudhud ni Aliguyon of the Ifugao , Hinilawod of Panay , Ibalon from Bicol , and Darangen of ...
The cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines include those covered by the prehistory and the early history (900–1521) of the Philippine archipelago's inhabitants, the pre-colonial forebears of today's Filipino people. Among the cultural achievements of the native people's belief systems, and culture in general, that are notable in ...
Mesoamerican literature was typically recorded on codices, though most surviving codices of pre-Columbian literature were written in the Latin alphabet to preserve oral tradition after colonization. Nahuatl literature was divided into cuícatl , which included song and poetry, and tlahtolli , which included prose works of history and discourses.
Other civilizations, contemporaneous with the colonial period, were documented in European accounts of the time. For instance, the Maya civilization maintained written records, which were often destroyed by Christian Europeans such as Diego de Landa, who viewed them as pagan but sought to preserve native histories. Despite the destruction, a ...
Pre-colonial polities in the Philippine archipelago Polity / Kingdom Period Today part of Ijang: unknown – 1790 Batanes: Lawan: unknown –1605 Samar, parts of Eastern Visayas: Samtoy unknown – 1572 Ilocos Region: Pangasinan: unknown – 1572 Pangasinan: Caboloan: unknown – 1572 San Carlos City, Pangasinan Kumintang: unknown – 1581 ...
(Literature from Puerto Rico is often included although it is not an independent country.) Here only the most general literary trends are discussed. Latin American literature rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the international success of the style known as magical realism.
Post-colonialism (or post-colonial theory) can refer to a set of theories in philosophy and literature that grapple with the legacy of colonial rule. In this sense, one can regard post-colonial literature as a branch of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires.