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Indigenous literature does not just offer a glimpse of the nation’s past. It provides us a glimpse of the way peoples resisted colonialism. This paper investigates possible spaces and instances of colonial resistance in the Philippine sugidanon (epic) Hinilawod chanted by Hugan-an as recorded and translated into English by Felipe Landa Jocano. It primarily reads the figure of one of the characters, Sinangkati, the binukot and babaylan, as resisting translation, that is, colonization. Named a puta (prostitute), Sinangkati chose to flee and be free in the island of Tarangban to remain a binukot and a babaylan.

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Sinangkati’s Call: Untranslated as Literary Spaces of Colonial Resistance in a Philippine Epic

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    2025年

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  • Raniela E. Barbaza

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Indigenous literature does not just offer a glimpse of the nation’s past. It provides us a glimpse of the way peoples resisted colonialism. This paper investigates possible spaces and instances of colonial resistance in the Philippine sugidanon (epic) Hinilawod chanted by Hugan-an as recorded and translated into English by Felipe Landa Jocano. It primarily reads the figure of one of the characters, Sinangkati, the binukot and babaylan, as resisting translation, that is, colonization. Named a puta (prostitute), Sinangkati chose to flee and be free in the island of Tarangban to remain a binukot and a babaylan.